USED Religious Affections (Edwards - Canon ed.)

Author: Jonathan Edwards

ISBN: 9781947644540

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

"The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked" (Jer 17:9). Nevertheless, emotions are a gift from God and are part of what God redeems. When the First Great Awakening was breaking out in New England in the 1700s, pastor Jonathan Edwards approved of it and prayed for great revival. However, as a man who suffered from depression and melancholy, Edwards also warned people of the dangers of relying alone on such intense emotions. The center of the Christian religion is not our emotions, but Christ and His goodness.