Happy Birthday to Jonathan Edwards
Today is the three-hundred-third birthday of Jonathan Edwards. I noticed this on the blog of the Jonathan Edwards Center, which posted today an essay by John Piper on Edwards as pastor. You should celebrate by reading the biography of Edwards in American National Biography (if you have access to it). Otherwise, try the biography in Wikipedia. Better still, get a copy of and start reading George Marsden’s Jonathan Edwards: A Life. After that, start on the works of Jonathan Edwards at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
Posted 6 Oct. 2006 at 1:01 am | Permalink
Happy birthday, Mr. Edwards.
I now feel inspired to go write a million word treatise on Original Sin while ministering to a three-hundred member congregation and raising eleven children, making sure to spend several hours a day in contemplative meditation of religious affections.
I’ll let you know how that turns out next week.
Posted 7 Oct. 2006 at 11:35 am | Permalink
I’ll let you know how that goes, too….