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1 online resource (184 pages) "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. Life -- Personae -- Tropes -- Charity -- Community -- Love. Ronald Story. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 RELIGION General Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 BX7260.E3 S764 2012eb 285.8092 Story, Ronald. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2012026785 9781613762240 1613762240 22573/ctt5n1cb1 JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4533147 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk71s http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762240/ http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1245439 http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4533147 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk71s http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762240/ http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1245439 LGG 120720 20200709060454.0 ocn830023862 eng