Works Volume 2: Religious Affections (Edwards - paperback)

Author: Jonathan Edwards

ISBN: 9780300158410

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

The Great Awakening created much bitter controversy: On the one side stood the emotionalists and enthusiasts, and on the other the rationalists. Edwards, with great analytical skill and enormous biblical learning, showed that both sides were in the wrong. This volume contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the eighteenth-century movement, and in developing criteria for such judgment he attacked at the same time one of the fundamental questions facing all religion: how to distinguish genuine from spurious piety?