Jonathan Edwards and the Church - Rilegato

Bezzant, Rhys S.

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ISBN 10: 0199890307 ISBN 13: 9780199890309

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2014

Riassunto

This book seeks to shed new light on the development of the ecclesiology of Jonathan Edwards from the writings of his youth until his Stockbridge treatises, setting this within the context of Reformation and Puritan debates, and his experience of the revivals during his Northampton ministry. Bezzant contends that Edwards repristinated an ossified New England ecclesiology by acknowledging the church's dynamic relationship with the created order, history and the nations, and by advocating renewal in ecclesial life through revivals, itinerancy, Concerts of Prayer, missionary initiatives outside of the local congregation, and doctrinal clarification. Bezzant shows that Edwards accommodated the Christendom model of ecclesiology to the new philosophical, political and social realities of the mid-eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. His ecclesiology can be aptly summarized as prophetic, in as far as the church makes identification with its social context, while yet providing an alternative millennial vision for human flourishing. Edwards's Gospel is preached within a larger vision of transformed society and the glory of God, for whom the church is an orderly but not ordinary instrument to promote visible union between believers and Christ.

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Recensione

Bezzant has done the church a great service by tackling this elusive subject...In this important work, Bezzant has brought an authoritative voice in evangelical circles into our contemporary discussions on the doctrine of the church, and for that he is to be applauded. (9Marks)

highly valuable resource for students and professionals alike who intend to get a more comprehensive understanding of the person, work and context of Jonathan Edwards in general, and of his nuanced view of the church in particular. (Michael Brautigam, The Expository Times)

L'autore

Rhys S. Bezzant teaches Church History, Theology and Christian Worship at Ridley Melbourne, having studied at the University of Melbourne and the University of Cologne. He directs the Jonathan Edwards Center Australia, a satellite of the JEC at Yale University, and is a visiting fellow at the Yale Divinity School and research associate at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199890307
• ISBN 13: 9780199890309
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 328