Jonathan Edwards on Beauty
eBook - ePub

Jonathan Edwards on Beauty

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Jonathan Edwards on Beauty

About this book

Beauty is hard to describe, but easy to identify. It resides in expected and unexpected places in our world. Beauty is present in our world in a variety of forms. Yet while the average person might think about the reality of beauty from time to time, few people would think about the source of beauty. Where does beauty come from? Why is it here?

Several hundred years ago Jonathan Edwards did some thinking of his own on this difficult subject. This volume explores his meditation on the subject and lays out a Christian framework for understanding and experiencing the beauty God has planted in His world.

Edwards found in the study of beauty the person of God. Where Edwards saw beautiful images and acts, he saw a representation, a small picture, of a reality too great to comprehend, a God too majestic to adequately adore. He sets in motion a path of glory that begins with the Lord, moves to creation, continues to the incarnation of Christ, moves to the church, and ascends to the glory of heaven, where the Holy Trinity dwells.

Easily accessible and readable, you do not need to be a scholar to enjoy these insights about Jonathan Edwards and his writings.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations of Works Cited
  7. Foreword: Jonathan Edwards, A God-Entranced Man
  8. Introduction: Entranced by God’s Beauty
  9. Chapter 1 - The Beauty of God
  10. Chapter 2 - The Beauty of Creation
  11. Chapter 3 - The Beauty of Christ
  12. Chapter 4 - The Beauty of the Church
  13. Chapter 5 - The Beauty of the Trinitarian Afterlife
  14. Conclusion: Beauty Remembered
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Recommended Resources on Jonathan Edwards