Jonathan Edwards on Worship: Public and Private Devotion to by Ted Rivera,Kenneth P. Minkema PDF

the nice American pastor-theologian Jonathan Edwards is still undeniably proper this day, greater than 250 years after his loss of life, as attested by means of the never-ending flurry of articles, books, and dissertations treating him. regardless of this, almost not anything has been written bearing on Edwards's perspectives on worship, a subject matter important to the Christian religion, and definitely to Edwards himself. This quantity explores Edwards's point of view on either private and non-private dimensions of worship, points of which upward push from well-understood Puritan different types, and proposes the perform of self-examination as a bridge among private and non-private devotion.

As Ken Minkema, of the Jonathan Edwards heart at Yale, writes within the foreword, "Ted Rivera's research is the 1st that systematically makes an attempt to teach us Edwards's perspectives of worship, and so represents an enormous source for students and non secular practitioners alike who're attracted to liturgy, 'the perform of piety,' and non secular development. via an engagement with Edwards's personal words--in letters, notebooks, and sermons--we study of Edwards's personal non secular existence, and of the character of non-public and company devotion."

"Worship was once a relevant function of Jonathan Edwards's lifestyles, but there was little sustained examine of this subject. Ted Rivera starts off to fill that hole via supplying a worthwhile account of a few of crucial of Edwards's perspectives and practices of worship."
--George Marsden
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of background
University of Notre Dame

"The time is ripe for a publication on Jonathan Edwards on worship, specially this kind of e-book as Ted Rivera offers. Many more youthful Christians, bored with smooth or even postmodern novelties, are more and more in retrospect for roots in Christian lifestyles, perform, and worship. Edwards used to be one of many most suitable exemplars of Puritan worship . . . . [A]n whole bankruptcy on self-examination, a convention on the middle of Edwards's preaching and private devotional lifestyles . . . is cause adequate for these attracted to a deep Christian lifestyles to learn, buy, and 'go and do likewise.'"
--John S. Hammett
Professor of Theology and affiliate Dean
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

"Early the US was once turbulent yet jam-packed with experience and pleasure. The highbrow and non secular engagement of Jonathan Edwards in the course of that tradition couldn't almost certainly have had around the globe implications with out the awesome grab Edwards had of what it intended to stroll with God in own and company worship. Ted Rivera has captured during this quantity the pathos of that stroll with God. this can be a exact volume."
--Paige Patterson
President
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Ted Rivera is Assistant Professor of faith at Liberty college in Lynchburg, Virginia.