Jonathan Edwards explains why the Puritans didn’t laugh so much
From this passage, a couple things can be observed. First, it is apparent that the Congregationalist Calvinists of Edwards’s day …
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John Chrysostom on justification
Here John the Golden Mouth preaches on 1 Timothy 1:16, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, …
Until I enter into the joy of my Lord
My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you That I may rejoice in you. And …
A sweet and pleasant affection
Bernard of Clairvaux’s On Loving God (X.28) describes what happens when our will is changed by the grace of God to …
Seminarian, you need the Holy Spirit
Samuel Miller, who taught church history and government at Princeton Theological Seminary in the first half of the nineteenth century, …
John Wesley on the third commandment
John Wesley, in his Explanatory Notes on the Old Testament, asks his readers to search their hearts over their obedience …
Jonathan Edwards on pop culture
In the first of Two Dissertations (aka The End for Which God Created the World)*, Jonathan Edwards, arguing that God’s …
Desire, fear, joy and sorrow
Augustine had four movements of the soul: desire, fear, joy, and sorrow [cupiat, metuat, laetetur, argrescat]. These were interrelated and …
Wretched insanity
I was looking at an edition of Augustine’s Confessions, and happened upon this brief note: The early Fathers …
Wholly and entirely from him
Jonathan Edwards: Though [God] has real pleasure in the creature’s holiness and happiness; yet this is not properly any pleasure …
How Edwards disappointed a new convert
William Buell Sprague, in his Lectures on Revivals of Religion, relates the following anecdote: “I remember to have heard of …
Not of the tongue but of life
John Calvin, on Christian religion: For [the Christian gospel] is a doctrine not of the tongue but of life. It …
Yet thou art truly sensible
Here’s something you don’t hear many theologians contemplate anymore, the sensibility of God, with Anselm of Canterbury doing the heavy …
Thomas Watson finally weighs in on the Rob Bell debate
Since the Net is all abuzz* about Rob Bell’s quasi-ambiguous questions that appear to deny hell in his infamous book trailer (maybe …
