Pecadores en Manos de un Dios Airado y sermones selectos - Biblioteca Clásicos Cristianos, tomo 3

by Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards es una de las más grandes figuras del protestantismo de todos los tiempos. Y una biblioteca de clásicos cristianos estaría incompleta sin la obra de este gran teólogo norteamericano. Nadie ha sido capaz de escribir sobre la teología de la religión desde una perspectiva bíblica y evangélica como Edwards. Su poderoso intelecto estuvo a la par con su ferviente corazón. Así, en este personaje único en la historia del protestantismo el fervor y la pasión espiritual de Edwards se mezclaron son la sabiduría racional poniendo a nuestra disposición una obra sin igual, lúcida filosóficamente a la vez que coherente bíblicamente. Quizás nadie como él ha sabido combinar la rigurosidad de una sana hermenéutica bíblica con la filosofía imperante en su tiempo. Edwards ha tenido una influencia incalculable en el protestantismo anglosajón; un erudito llamado Erskine puso los escritos de Edwards al alcance de los Bautistas ingleses; y esos escritos moldearon el pensamiento de los hombres que se reunieron a orar desde 1784 "para el Avivamiento General y esparcimiento de la religión". Fueron estos Bautistas ingleses quienes reeditaron el libro "Un intento humilde de Edwards para promover la oración extraordinaria" en 1789, y enviaron a William Carey a la India en 1793. Por lo menos un volumen de Edwards fue con Carey en este histórico viaje. En este tomo el lector podrá encontrar sus famosas 70 resoluciones así como 9 de los sermones más relevantes que el gran teólogo norteamericano predicó a lo largo de su PECADORES EN LAS MANOS DE UN DIOS AIRADO LA CARIDAD CRISTIANA DIOS GLORIFICADO EN LA DEPENDENCIA DEL HOMBRE HIPÓCRITAS DEFICIENTES EN EL DEBER DE LA ORACIÓN IMPORTANCIA Y VENTAJAS DE UN CONOCIMIENTO EXHAUSTIVO DE LA VERDAD TEOLÓGICA LA EXCELENCIA DE CRISTO LA SOBERANÍA DE DIOS EN LA SALVACIÓN DEL HOMBRE UNA LUZ DIVINA Y SOBRENATURAL IMPARTIDA DIRECTAMENTE AL ALMA POR EL ESPÍRITU DE DIOS; UNA DEMOSTRACIÓN DE QUE ESTA DOCTRINA CONCUERDA CON LAS ESCRITURAS

342 pages, Bonded Leather

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Jonathan Edwards.

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.