Jonathan edwards accomplishments
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More Books from John Piper
Good News Publishers
Copyright © 1998 John PiperAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-58134-745-6
Contents
Preface,Acknowledgments,
PART ONE A Personal Encounter with Jonathan Edwards by John Piper,
CHAPTER ONE: The End for Which God Created the World Why Publish an Old Book? A Personal and Public Concern,
CHAPTER TWO: Jonathan Edwards, The Man and His Life Learning from an Unmodern Evangelical,
CHAPTER THREE: Jonathan Edwards, A Mind in Love with God The Private Life of a Modern Evangelical,
CHAPTER FOUR: Jonathan Edwards, Enjoying God and the Transformation of Culture,
The Public Life of a Modern Evangelical,
PART TWO The End for Which God Created the World by Jonathan Edwards,
A Note on How to Read The End for Which God Created the World Concerning the Text Used in This Edition of The End for Which God Created the World,
INTRODUCTION: Containing Explanations of Terms and General Positions,
CHAPTER ONE: Wherein Is Considered What Reason Teaches Concerning This Affair,
SECTION ONE: Some things observed in general which reason d
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John Piper’s “Wishful Thinking” about Jonathan Edwards and Slavery
Jonathan Edwards was one of the most significant pastors and theologians in American religious history. He also enslaved other human beings.
I’m no expert on Edwards, but I don’t think there’s anything new or controversial about either claim. Both are evident, for example, from George Marsden’s magisterial biography, published almost twenty years ago. (If I mess up what follows, perhaps we can talk him into coming back to the Bench to correct me!)
But Edwards’ slaveholding is back in the news because one of his best-known contemporary admirers, John Piper, wrote a controversial essay about it earlier this month at his Desiring God site.
It’s not the first time Piper has addressed this troubling dimension of one of his theological heroes. In 2013, he recorded a seven-minute interview about Edwards and slavery for the same website. On that occasion he offered some wise pastoral advice that seems generally pertinent for Christians as they study church history. For example, Edwards’ slaveh
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At his 1988 Pastor’s Conference at Bethlehem Baptist Church, John Piper preached his first “Biography” message which would launch an annual tradition and a new genre category on the greatly helpful Desiring God site. Each year subsequently, Piper would read the works of one particular pastor, theologian, or missionary and give a biographical sketch at one portion of the conference. Most year’s he would then take questions for the time remaining.
For the first year, Piper chose as his subject – ultimately the first of many such sketches – his dead mentor, Jonathan Edwards. In this message, Piper sketches Edwards’s life, and gives a short history of the Bethlehem Pastor’s own reading of Edwards: first with An Essay on the Trinity, then The Freedom of the Will, The Nature of True Virtue, and the Religious Affections.
For me as for many of the new young Edwards enthusiasts, this talk sparked an interest in the man and the message of Jonathan Edwards. Piper passionately showed how the Northampton Puritan simultaneously held his “G
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