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Jonathan Edwards, né le 5 octobre 1703 à East Windsor et mort le 22 mars 1758 à Princeton , est un pasteur, théologien et métaphysicien américain, et un missionnaire auprès des Amérindiens. Il est « communément reconnu comme étant le premier et le plus important théologien philosophique d'Amérique », et l'un des plus grands intellectuels américains. L'œuvre théologique d'Edwards est très largement fournie, mais elle est souvent associée à la défense de la théologie réformée, à la métaphysique du déterminisme théologique et au puritanisme. De récentes études ont mis en valeur le fait qu'Edwards ait complètement basé son œuvre sur les concepts de beauté, d'harmonie et d'adéquation éthique, et le fait que les Lumières occupent une place centrale dans son approche.

Il exerça une influence cruciale dans le premier grand réveil, et supervisa les commencements du réveil religieux en 1733-1735 à son église de Northampton au Massachusetts. Edwards délivra le sermon « Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God », un classique des débuts de la littérature américaine, lors d'une autre vague de réveil en 1741, à la suite de la visite de George Whitefield dans les Treize colonies. Il est largement connu pour beaucoup de ses œuvres : The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, qui servit à inspirer des milliers de missionnaires à travers le XIXe siècle, et Religious Affections que beaucoup de réformés lisent même aujourd'hui.

✵ 5. octobre 1703 – 22. mars 1758   •   Autres noms جوناثان إدواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جاناتان ادواردز, Ionathan Edwards
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“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”

Source: A careful & strict inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of the will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue & vice, reward & punishment, praise & blame...

“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”

Jonathan Edwards livre Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Source: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has.”

Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), PART II : Showing What Are No Certain Signs That Religious Affections Are Truly Gracious, Or That They Are Not, Ch. 11: Nothing can be certainly known of the nature of Religious Affections, that they much dispose persons with their mouths to praise and glorify God. <!-- (1831 edition), p. 194, also in Complete Christian Classics (1999), Vol. 1, p. 365 -->
Contexte: !-- He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has. A true Christian has ten times more to do with his heart and its corruptions, than a hypocrite: and the sins of his heart and practice, appear to him in their blackness; they look dreadful; and it often appears a very mysterious thing, that any grace can be consistent with such corruption, or should be in such a heart. But a false hope hides corruption, covers it all over, and the hypocrite looks clean and bright in his own eyes.
--> There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of which are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. These two kinds of hypocrites, Mr. Shepard, in his Exposition of the Parable of the Ten Virgins, distinguishes by the names of legal and evangelical hypocrites; and often speaks of the latter as the worst. And it is evident that the latter are commonly by far the most confident in their hope, and with the most difficulty brought off from it: I have scarcely known the instance of such a one, in my life, that has been undeceived.

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