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Biographical Introduction
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is infamous for his extreme Calvinist theology in general (according to the Oxford dictionary) and his doctrine of double predestination in particular exemplified by The Freedom of the Will (1754). Edwards famous fire and brimstone sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) we tremendously influential during the Great […]
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Jonathan Edwards On Examining the Lord’s Supper (May 7, 2012)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758 AD) was the grandson of Solomon Stoddard (1643 - 1729 AD). Stoddard was called the 'congressional pope of New England' and it was he who established the Half-Way Covenant that was accepted everywhere in New England as the standard for Church Membership. Under the Half-Way Covenant, evidence […]
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Narrative of Communion Controversy by Jonathan Edwards (June 13, 2011)
The Narrative of Communion Controversy is at the end of Yale's Jonathan Edwards series "Ecclesiastical Writings (WJE Online Vol. 12)." It consists of a series of letters between Jonathan Edwards and a committee of members at Edward's church in Northamp...