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Though Edwards spent most of his life working in local churches, and saw himself primarily as a pastor, his own views on the theology of the church have never been explored in depth. This book presents Edwards's views on ecclesiology by tracking the development of his convictions during the course of his tumultuous career. Drawing on Reformation foundations and the Puritan background of his ministry, Edwards refreshes our understanding of the church by connecting it to a nuanced interpretation of revival, allowing a dynamic view of the place of church in history and new thinking about its institutional structure. Indeed in Edwards's writing the church has an exalted status as the bride of Ch...
the Secretary of Agriculture is responsible for the national forests and grasslands of the United States, for the safety of the food produced in the United States, for administering the food stamp program and child nutrition programs, and for providing advice to farmers and gardeners.
A collection of short horror stories by Tom Schafer including: The Gilded Mirror Tongue of the Succubus Dead Man's Run Ropeburns The Hanging of Terrance Richards Unburied Soul And a preview of Ten Bells Crying, Ten Belles Dying, prequel to Shadow of The Ripper.
Jonathan Edwards (1703&–58) was arguably this country's greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the &"New Divinity&") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America. Hence any study of religion and politics in early America must take account of this theologian and his legacy. Yet historians still regard Edward's social theory as either nonexistent or underdeveloped. Gerald McDermott demonstrates, to the contrary, that Edwards was very interested in the social and political affairs of his day, and commented upon them at length in his unpublished sermons and privat...