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Hipócritas, Deficientes en el Deber de la Oración
Un sermón donde el renombrado predicador y teólogo estadounidense Jonathan Edwards nos advierte y exhorta acerca del deber de la oración privada.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 4, 2010
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Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time, and a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s.
The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. He received his Masters three years later. As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. However, in 1721 he came to what he called a "delightful conviction" though meditation on 1 Timothy 1:17. From that point on, Edwards delighted in the sovereignty of God. Edwards later recognized this as his conversion to Christ.
In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. He was a student minister, not a visiting pastor, his rule being thirteen hours of study a day. In the same year, he married Sarah Pierpont, then age seventeen, daughter of Yale founder James Pierpont (1659–1714). In total, Jonathan and Sarah had eleven children.
Stoddard died on February 11th, 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony. Throughout his time in Northampton his preaching brought remarkable religious revivals.
Yet, tensions flamed as Edwards would not continue his grandfather's practice of open communion. Stoddard believed that communion was a "converting ordinance." Surrounding congregations had been convinced of this, and as Edwards became more convinced that this was harmful, his public disagreement with the idea caused his dismissal in 1750.
Edwards then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).
Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758. He was a popular choice, for he had been a friend of the College since its inception. He died of fever at the age of fifty-four following experimental inoculation for smallpox and was buried in the President's Lot in the Princeton cemetery beside his son-in-law, Aaron Burr.
Jonathan Edwards was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time, and a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s.
The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale in September, 1716 when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later (1720) as valedictorian. He received his Masters three years later. As a youth, Edwards was unable to accept the Calvinist sovereignty of God. However, in 1721 he came to what he called a "delightful conviction" though meditation on 1 Timothy 1:17. From that point on, Edwards delighted in the sovereignty of God. Edwards later recognized this as his conversion to Christ.
In 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. He was a student minister, not a visiting pastor, his rule being thirteen hours of study a day. In the same year, he married Sarah Pierpont, then age seventeen, daughter of Yale founder James Pierpont (1659–1714). In total, Jonathan and Sarah had eleven children.
Stoddard died on February 11th, 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony. Throughout his time in Northampton his preaching brought remarkable religious revivals.
Yet, tensions flamed as Edwards would not continue his grandfather's practice of open communion. Stoddard believed that communion was a "converting ordinance." Surrounding congregations had been convinced of this, and as Edwards became more convinced that this was harmful, his public disagreement with the idea caused his dismissal in 1750.
Edwards then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).
Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758. He was a popular choice, for he had been a friend of the College since its inception. He died of fever at the age of fifty-four following experimental inoculation for smallpox and was buried in the President's Lot in the Princeton cemetery beside his son-in-law, Aaron Burr.
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November 28, 2019
Lectura obligatoria
Libro imprescindible para conocer más de lo importante y fundamental del deber de la oración. Edwards enfatiza en que es uno de los deberes principales de la vida cristiana y descuidarla trae ruina e incluso puede ser un signo de falsa seguridad y conversión.
Libro imprescindible para conocer más de lo importante y fundamental del deber de la oración. Edwards enfatiza en que es uno de los deberes principales de la vida cristiana y descuidarla trae ruina e incluso puede ser un signo de falsa seguridad y conversión.
September 14, 2020
Vale mucho la pena leer estas poquitas páginas pero con gran significado, creo que todos hemos sido negligentes al dejar el deber de la oración y Edwards nos hace entender el porqué debemos ser responsables en este deber y qué pasará si lo descuidamos. Recomendado.
December 19, 2022
Un libro que debería ser más
Pero la traducción dejó mucho que desear
O quizás el acomodo en el formato para kindle
Pero en cuanto al tema
Sin duda es un gran exhorto a la diligencia en la oración
Más que libro es un comentario breve sobre la oración
Es una tristeza la traducción difícil de digerir
Pero la traducción dejó mucho que desear
O quizás el acomodo en el formato para kindle
Pero en cuanto al tema
Sin duda es un gran exhorto a la diligencia en la oración
Más que libro es un comentario breve sobre la oración
Es una tristeza la traducción difícil de digerir
August 3, 2021
Fuerte exhortación
En un mundo permisivo una buena exhortación respecto del deber de la oración se hace justo y necesario. A pesar de lo pequeño del libro es muy grande los beneficios que trae.
En un mundo permisivo una buena exhortación respecto del deber de la oración se hace justo y necesario. A pesar de lo pequeño del libro es muy grande los beneficios que trae.
August 11, 2021
Hipócritas, Deficientes en el Deber dela Oración
Buen libro, cuya serie de citas, nos permite reflexionar sobre nuestro ser y hacer como Cristiano y de la aquellas direcciones sugeridas por el autor para mantener el camino correcto en nuestras creencias.
Buen libro, cuya serie de citas, nos permite reflexionar sobre nuestro ser y hacer como Cristiano y de la aquellas direcciones sugeridas por el autor para mantener el camino correcto en nuestras creencias.
March 24, 2021
Sólo puedo decir: ouch.
Libro corto, libro directo, libro desafiante.
Libro corto, libro directo, libro desafiante.
January 28, 2022
Bíblico
August 30, 2021
Excelente libro, no nos engañemos a nosotros mismos pensando que con un poco de oración pública es lo suficientemente para nuestra vida.
August 23, 2024
Por la manera en que se redacto el libro, me costo leerlo y entenderlo. Este es un clásico a leer, sobre todo me hizo ver mi condición y necesidad de la oración.
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