Jonathan Edwards Lover of God - Volume 1

This volume of The Essential Edwards Collection tells the story of Jonathan's life and the important events that shaped his faith and views on God and salvation. It is a biographical and contextual look at the man credited for starting the First Great Awakening that is accessable and readable for everyone. You do not need to be a scholar to enjoy and benefit from the story about, and rich lessons of, Edwards's life.

About the author

OWEN STRACHAN is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the Director for the Center on Public Theology at MBTS. He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, an MDiv from Southern Seminary, and an AB from Bowdoin College. Strachan has published fourteen books and writes regularly for The Gospel Coalition, the Christian Post, and Thoughtlife, his Patheos blog. He is married and is the father of three children. Strachan hosts the City of God podcast available at https: //cpt.mbts.edu.

DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY is Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He formerly served as a lecturer at Yale University, as an adjunct professor as Aquinas College, and as a visiting professor at both Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary. Sweeney is the author of a number of books and articles about religious history and the American theologian, Jonathan Edwards. He resides with his wife, Wilma, and their son in Lindenhurst, Illinois.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney, Douglas Allen Sweeney
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2010
• EAN: 9780802424570
• ISBN: 978-0-8024-2457-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 180 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 185 g
• Series: Essential Edwards Collection; Essential Edwards Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; christliches Leben und christliche Praxis, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Inspirational, RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspirational