A Divine Light: The Spiritual Leadership of Jonathan EdwardsA Divine Light: The Spiritual Leadership of Jonathan Edwards is the latest installment in the Leaders in Action series. Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was one of the leading religious thinkers of the colonial era. Educated at Yale, he became the senior pastor of the Congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1724 at the age of twenty-one. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
THE LIFE OF JONATHAN EDWARDS | 17 |
THE CHARACTER OF JONATHAN EDWARDS | 121 |
Spirituality | 143 |
Humility | 147 |
Holiness | 153 |
Duty | 157 |
Love for God | 162 |
Spiritual Disciplines | 189 |
Experiential Religion | 193 |
Sovereignty | 197 |
Gloria Dei | 203 |
THE LEGACY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS | 205 |
Vindication | 207 |
To Future Generations | 210 |
Life and Letters | 214 |
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