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Many know the name; few know the manJonathan Edwards can be hard to pin down. He was intelligent, yet warm; he preached graphic sermons on hell, yet wrote stirring essays on beauty; he was a product of his time, yet a reformer. In short, he was complicated, as most of us are. But in studying Edwards, you will discover something more valuable than biographical details.  More than learning about the pivotal moments of his life, more than grasping the major themes of his thought, you will encounter God through the eyes of Jonathan Edwards. And in so doing you will find yourself adoring, worshipping, and delighting in a God who is bigger than you dared imagine and closer than you could have dreamed. 

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OWEN STRACHAN is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the Director for the Center on Public Theology at MBTS. He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, an MDiv from Southern Seminary, and an AB from Bowdoin College. Strachan has published fourteen books and writes regularly for The Gospel Coalition, the Christian Post, and Thoughtlife, his Patheos blog. He is married and is the father of three children. Strachan hosts the City of God podcast available at https://cpt.mbts.edu.DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY is Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He formerly served as a lecturer at Yale University, as an adjunct professor as Aquinas College, and as a visiting professor at both Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary. Sweeney is the author of a number of books and articles about religious history and the American theologian, Jonathan Edwards. He resides with his wife, Wilma, and their son in Lindenhurst, Illinois.

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Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: Moody Publishers (May 1, 2018)

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"The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian" by Owen Strachan and Douglas Allen Sweeney, is a fantastic read!This masterful presentation creates the compelling desire to study many more Bible verses, such as the ones below that speak to God's meticulous sovereignty, which was a very strong focus of Edwards:1. John 6:44...No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.2. Proverbs 16:4...The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.3. Proverbs 16:9...A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.4. Proverbs 19:21...There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.5. Proverbs 20:24...Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?6. Proverbs 21:1...The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.7. Job 42:2...I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.8. Isaiah 14:24...The Lord of host hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:9. Isaiah 14:27...For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?10. Isaiah 46:9-10...Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:11. Isaiah 48:3...I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.12. Jeremiah 1:5...Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.13. Psalms 139:16...Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.14. John 3:3...Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.15. John 3:5...Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.16. John 3:27...John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.17. John 6:39...And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.18. John 6:45...It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.19. John 6:64-65...But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.20. John 8:47...He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.21. John 10:14...I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.22. John 10:16...And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.23. John 10:26-29...But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.24. John 13:18...I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.25. John 14:6...Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.26. John 15:16...Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.27. John 15:19...If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.28. John 17:2-3...As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.And this is eternal life, that they might know thee only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.29. John 17:6...I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.30. John 17:9-12...I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou hast given me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.31. John 17:16...They are not of this world, even as I am not of this world.32. Acts 13:48...And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.33. Romans 8:28-30...And we know all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.34. 1 Corinthians 12:3...Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.35. Galatians 1:15-16...But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:36. Ephesians 1:4-5...According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,37. Ephesians 1:11...In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:38. Ephesians 2:8-9...For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:Not of works, lest any man should boast.39. 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14...But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.40. 2 Timothy 1:9....Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,41. 1 Peter 1:20-21...Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.42. 1 Peter 2:2...Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.43. 1 Peter 2:1-5...Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.44. Revelation 17:8...The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.45. Job 37:16...Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?46. Psalm 147:5...Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.47. 1 Corinthians 3:6-7...I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.48. Proverbs 16:33...The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.Mark Smith, B.A., M.S.M., author of God of our flat Earth

This is a very disappointing book. I don't feel like there is much critical reflection on Edwards' life. The author is clearly a fan of this undoubtedly great man. But there is not much here to help us understand him. It is simply written in the style of a hagiography and Edwards comes across as 2 dimensional. The book contains details of his life, but i don't feel like the author dug deep to find the real man.

Relying heavily on Edwards' sermons, one catches Edwards' passion for all things Christ. What an absolute treasure this is! Highly recommend!

Condition better then advertised. Everything is perfect. No complaints.

Owen Strachan teaches Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Douglas A. Sweeney teaches church history and the history of Christian thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and he served at Yale as a contributing editor on its Works of Jonathan Edwards series. Jonathan Edwards was an eighteenth century American Reformed pastor and theologian. Many know him from his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which they may have read in high school. But Edwards wrote many other works, as well. This book, The Essential Jonathan Edwards, is a condensed version of the five-volume Essential Edwards Collection.The book has five parts, with chapters in each part. Part 1, “Lover of God,” is about Edwards’ life. Part 2, “Beauty,” covers Edwards’ thought on the beauty of God, creation, Christ, the church, and the Trinity. Part 3 is entitled “The Good Life.” It discusses how the Christian life coincides with happiness, sin’s disruption of the good life, the way that conversion orients believers and gives them a taste and an appreciation for the divine, and the importance of reading Scripture in preparing a person for conversion and feeding believers. Part 4, “True Christianity,” engages the difference between authentic Christianity and being merely a nominal Christian. It examines Edwards’ thoughts on how people can identify whether they are authentic Christians. It also tells the story of two Christians: David Brainerd, a friend of Edwards who was a missionary to Native Americans, and Abigail Hutchinson, a bedridden convert in the first Great Awakening. Part 5 concerns “Heaven and Hell.” There is a chapter about hell’s eternity and the pain that unbelievers experience from God’s intense wrath at their sin. There is also a chapter about heaven and how it is a world of love, where God is glorified and jealousy is absent.The book can be called a homiletical introduction to Edwards. Part 1 is like a Sunday school lesson on Edwards’ life. Strachan and Sweeney would mention and describe Edwards’ friendship with the successful evangelist George Whitfield, for example, then they would talk about the importance of not being jealous and of being more concerned about the promulgation of the Gospel. Edwards’ solitude is held up as an example to Christians, as is his love for and interaction with his family. This part is rather hagiographical, yet it does acknowledge that Edwards was flawed, as when he supported slavery and when he failed to handle certain interpersonal interactions that well. Some of his weaknesses coincided with his strengths, Strachan and Sweeney contend. Overall, Strachan and Sweeney are sympathetic towards Edwards. They seem to agree with him on communion being restricted to those who can demonstrate that they are true believers, one of the controversies that led to Edwards’ removal from the pastorate. His grisly teachings on hell are upheld as an example for today’s church, which ignores or neglects the doctrine.The book often quotes passages from Edwards’ writings, then comments on them in a homiletical fashion. The authors’ prose is very lucid, so it is like the reader is being given a friendly tour through Edwards’ thought.This book is a satisfying and an edifying read. Parts of it did not teach me anything that I did not previously know, but it was enjoyable to mull over such concepts as the necessity and the eternity of God with Edwards. Edwards is a compelling example of one who was enamored with God and with what he saw of God in the world around him. There were parts of the book that taught me something new, or something that I had not considered before. Edwards’ attraction to his wife’s spiritual qualities, his struggle to find a pastorate, his articulation of the Trinity, and the Old Testament passages that he applied to hell are examples of this.One can also feel discouragement yet hope in reading this book. Reading the discussions on how to identify oneself as a true Christian, I found myself saying, “Well, I guess I flunk that test, and I cannot picture myself ever being THAT good!” In reading Edwards’ graphic discussions of hell, I thought, “Wow, I hope that’s not how things are!” Yet, Edwards offered people hope. He encouraged them to seek the Lord while they can, to go to God for mercy. He said that Bible reading can prepare them for conversion, even if they do not feel particularly converted right now. And the book upholds David Brainerd as an example of one who struggled with depression and a long fruitlessness in ministry yet persevered.Some discussions could have been developed more: the one on Edwards’ Freedom of the Will, for example, failed to highlight Edwards’ point that God somehow causes people’s choices. Still, the book is an effective introduction to Edwards’ thought. It can be a spiritual feast to newcomers and to those who have already read Edwards.I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher. My review is honest!

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