1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Is Jonathan Edwards Your Homeboy?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by humblethinker, Aug 1, 2012.

Top Posters
  1. humblethinker

    humblethinker Active Member

    Joined:
    Apr 7, 2011
    Messages:
    1,285
    Likes Received:
    0
    Roger Olson talks about Jonathan Edwards today Why is Jonathan Edwards considered so great?

    In addition to some of the interesting things Edwards believed, a commentor had this to say:

    Other odd features of Edwards’s metaphysics are:
    1. There are no material objects (he was an idealist)
    2. There is no secondary causation within creation (he was an occasionalist)
    3. There are no enduring substances (he was a perdurantist; for every slice of time, the world was instantiated ex nihilio)
    4. There is nothing that God is not in (he was a panentheist).
    If evangelical Edwards fans were to know more about his metaphysics, they would be less inclined to call him their “homeboy.”    ​
     
    #1 humblethinker, Aug 1, 2012
  2. quantumfaith

    quantumfaith Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2010
    Messages:
    6,890
    Likes Received:
    1
    I am going to have quit reading your posts, tired of having to visit dictionary.com. :)
     
    #2 quantumfaith, Aug 1, 2012
  3. humblethinker

    humblethinker Active Member

    Joined:
    Apr 7, 2011
    Messages:
    1,285
    Likes Received:
    0
    haha... do you mean for 'homeboy' or 'commentor' :-s
     
    #3 humblethinker, Aug 1, 2012
  4. TCGreek

    TCGreek New Member

    Joined:
    Sep 12, 2006
    Messages:
    7,373
    Likes Received:
    0
    There are many things I like about Jonathan Edwards.
     
    #4 TCGreek, Aug 1, 2012
  5. humblethinker

    humblethinker Active Member

    Joined:
    Apr 7, 2011
    Messages:
    1,285
    Likes Received:
    0
    Me too. Olson credited him quite a bit.
     
    #5 humblethinker, Aug 1, 2012
  6. IANMO(IAMNTMYOWN)

    IANMO(IAMNTMYOWN) New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 30, 2012
    Messages:
    106
    Likes Received:
    0
    "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is still by far one of my favorite classic sermons.
     
    #6 IANMO(IAMNTMYOWN), Aug 1, 2012
  7. mont974x4

    mont974x4 New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 6, 2012
    Messages:
    2,565
    Likes Received:
    1
    I am currently reading The Sermons of Jonathon Edwards and have yet to find anything theologically off. Although I do wish the editor would have translated them into modern English.:tongue3:
     
    #7 mont974x4, Aug 1, 2012
  8. mont974x4

    mont974x4 New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 6, 2012
    Messages:
    2,565
    Likes Received:
    1
    Mine too. More of us preachers need to bring that passion and that reality from the pulpit. Too many people think they just make mistakes but are basically good as opposed to understanding they are sinners and owe everything to a God who is righteous and just.
     
    #8 mont974x4, Aug 1, 2012
  9. MorseOp

    MorseOp New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 25, 2012
    Messages:
    361
    Likes Received:
    1
    In the absence of proof the unknown commentator can't be taken seriously.

    Jonathan Edwards was a uniquely American puritan. Arguably he was one of the last puritans of note. He wasn't a great orator. He manuscripted his sermons and read them word for word from the pulpit. It was the content of his sermons that cause him to be discussed hundreds of years after his death.

    Edwards is one of the reasons I take sermon content seriously.
     
    #9 MorseOp, Aug 2, 2012
  10. A Faithful Sidekick

    A Faithful Sidekick New Member

    Joined:
    Jul 29, 2012
    Messages:
    37
    Likes Received:
    0
    Count me as a "fan" of Jonathan Edwards as well. The Puritans produced some of the most wonderful Christian literature since the Reformation. Great, great stuff indeed.
     
    #10 A Faithful Sidekick, Aug 2, 2012
  11. Yeshua1

    Yeshua1 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 19, 2012
    Messages:
    52,624
    Likes Received:
    2,742
    Faith:
    Baptist

    Nope, mine are Jesus , and to lesser extent, Paul!
     
    #11 Yeshua1, Aug 2, 2012
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)
Loading...