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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...

That grace and holiness, that divine light and love, and that peace and joy that is in the hearts of the saints is a communication from God. Those are streams, or rather drops, from the infinite fountain of God’s holiness and blessedness. ’Tis a ray from the fountain of light.33 Right at the heart of what Edwards contributes to historic Christianity is his insistence that Christian living is not mere mental assent, or association with a particular church, or scrupulous behavior monitoring, or anything
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