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Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) has long been recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in the early Enlightenment and a major figure in the history of American Christianity. In this accessible one-volume text, leading Edwards experts Oliver Crisp and Kyle Strobel introduce readers to the formidable mind of Jonathan Edwards as they survey key theological and philosophical themes in his thought,...

is beautiful because he is personal and because he partakes in the “consent, agreement and union of being to being” within his own life.59 Edwards’s description of beauty is discovered first and foremost in God’s affectionate knowledge in his eternal beatific gazing. In this sense, he is the ultimate example and definition of primary beauty. Primary beauty, what Edwards will also call spiritual beauty, is persons uniting in love.60 Spiritual beings are the primary instance of beauty, whereas physical
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