Jonathan Edwards cytaty

Jonathan Edwards – amerykański kolonialny kaznodzieja protestancki nurtu kongregacjonalistycznego, teolog i ewangelista. Kluczowa postać ewangelikalizmu. Uważany za najwybitniejszego amerykańskiego teologa. Zasłynął jako jeden z najbardziej wszechstronnych amerykańskich teologów i filozofów oświecenia. Jego dorobek obejmuje bardzo różne dziedziny, jednak Edwardsa najczęściej kojarzy się z obroną teologii kalwinistycznej, metafizyką teologicznego determinizmu oraz dziedzictwem purytańskim. W swoim słynnym kazaniu Grzesznicy w rękach rozgniewanego Boga położył nacisk na gniew Boga wobec grzechu. Edwards skontrastował tu wizję surowego Boga z tezą o Bogu-zbawicielu. Siła oddziaływania niektórych kazań była tak dotkliwa, że niektórzy słuchacze mdleli. Przykre reakcje słuchaczy na słowa kaznodziei wywołały kontrowersje wokół „cielesnych skutków” obecności Ducha Świętego. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Październik 1703 – 22. Marzec 1758  •  Natępne imiona جوناثان إدواردز, Ҷонатан Эдвардс, جاناتان ادواردز, Ionathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards: Cytaty po angielsku

“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”

Jonathan Edwards

Źródło: 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 książka Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Źródło: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

Jonathan Edwards

Źródło: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings

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

Jonathan Edwards

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 -->
Kontekst: !-- 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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