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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...

love and adoration that stretches back into time immemorial and the overflow of which caused the very universe to be brought into existence—so that you, on a bland Sunday morning, as a sinner, could participate in the joy of the triune God, Father delighting in Son, Son adoring Father, with the Holy Spirit being himself the very bond of love into which you are swept up. This is why the world exists. And though you will not take on new physical features when you leave church that morning, you will
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