04013cam a2200589Ma 4500 ocn830023862 20200709060454.0 m d cr |||||||nn|n 120720s2012 mau obd 001 0 eng d LGG eng pn LGG OCLCO ORE P@U YDXCP OCLCF JSTOR NLGGC OCLCQ COO OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ N$T 9781613762240 (electronic bk.) 1613762240 (electronic bk.) 1558499830 9781558499836 9781558499829 (library cloth ; alk. paper) 1558499822 NLGGC 38262243X NZ1 14831891 1245439 (N$T) 22573/ctt5n1cb1 JSTOR BX7260.E3 S764 2012eb REL000000 bisacsh HIS036100 bisacsh HIS036020 bisacsh 285.8092 23 Story, Ronald. Jonathan Edwards and the gospel of love [electronic resource] / Ronald Story. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013) 1 online resource (184 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Life -- Personae -- Tropes -- Charity -- Community -- Love. "Jonathan Edwards has long epitomized the Puritan preacher as fiery scold, fixated on the inner struggle of the soul and the eternal flames of hell. In this book, Ronald Story offers a fundamentally different view of Edwards, revealing a profoundly social minister who preached a gospel of charity and community bound by love. The first chapters trace Edwards's life and impact, examine his reputation as an intellectual, Calvinist, and revivalist, and highlight the importance for him of the gentler, more compassionate concepts of light, harmony, beauty, and sweetness. Story then explains what Edwards means by the "Gospel of Love"--Individual than interpersonal, and whose central feature is the practice of charity to the poor and the quest for loving community in this world, the chief signs of true salvation. As Edwards preached in his sermon "Heaven Is a World of Love," the afterlife itself is social in nature because love is social. Drawing on Edwards's own sermons and notebooks, Story reveals the minister's belief that divine love expressed in the human family should take us beyond tribalism, sectarianism, provincialism, and nationality. Edwards offers hope, in the manner of Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King Jr., and other great "improvers," for the coming of a world without want and war. Gracefully and compellingly written, this book represents a new departure in Edwards studies, revising the long-standing yet misleading stereotype of a man whose lessons of charity, community, and love we need now more than ever."--Project Muse. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record. Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. RELIGION General. bisacsh Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. fast (OCoLC)fst00039981 Electronic books. Print version: Story, Ronald. Jonathan Edwards and the gospel of love. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2012026785 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4533147 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk71s Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762240/ EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1245439 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4533147 Project MUSE MUSE muse19014 YBP Library Services YANK 10384012 EBSCOhost EBSC 1245439 56908 56908