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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

upholding of truth, and the fifth is genuine love.58 In all this we see that the emphasis on love in Edwards’s theology of the Christian life does not find faithful descendants in the theologies of Schleiermacher and his heirs, who extract the subjective (experienced love) to the neglect of the objective (revealed truth). Love without truth is rootless. Truth without love is lifeless. Neither is true Christianity. True divine love is never divorced from, but always founded on, God-revealed truth.
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