Category: Conference Historian
Going Deeper With Jonathan Edwards
December 12, 2022
ALWYN YORK, CONFERENCE HISTORIAN Jonathan Edwards was a voluminous writer, which can make the prospect of reading his works intimidating. In 2008 Yale University Press completed the definitive edition of his writings. It took twenty-six volumes. Over this year I have written a series on some of the shorter and more accessible works of Edwards […]
Religious Affections – Jonathan Edwards
September 6, 2022
Making resolutions is something which has fallen into disfavor. Because resolutions are usually broken, most people do not even bother to make them anymore. Jonathan Edwards stands out as someone who made resolutions and kept them. His resolutions were not for a year but for the course of his whole life. He made his resolutions […]
RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS – BY JONATHAN EDWARDS
July 6, 2022
Alwyn York, CCCC Historian By 1746 Jonathan Edwards had seen the excitement and inspiration of religious revivals, but he had also witnessed some of the controversy and negative effects they could produce. Many lives had been changed and churches were filled with new converts, but the revivals had also been subjected to severe criticism. Some […]
The Life of David Brainerd – By Jonathan Edwards
April 14, 2022
ALWYN YORK, CONFERENCE HISTORIAN Jonathan Edwards is remembered chiefly as a preacher and theologian. But what was probably the most widely read of all his works was not a sermon or a theological treatise but a missionary biography. His Life of David Brainerd was published in 1749, and has never been out of print since. […]