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Jonathan Edwards is widely hailed as the greatest theologian in American history. In Edwards on the Christian Life, Dane Ortlund invites us to explore the great eighteenth century pastor’s central passion: God’s resplendent beauty. Whether the topic was the nature of love, the preeminence of Scripture, or the glory of the natural world, the concept of beauty stood at the heart of Edwards’s...

as upholding and displaying and connected to God’s beauty. Yet none of them expresses who God is in the way that beauty does. While we normally use the word beauty to speak of what is physically beautiful, Edwards uses beauty as a moral category.8 Not only the eyes but also the soul has an aesthetic capacity. The beauty of God is not captured with a camera but enjoyed with the heart. This is why, according to Edwards, to speak of God’s holiness is virtually the same thing as to speak of his beauty.
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