Sean Lucas, clearing away some misconceptions about Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections, concludes:
For myself, I have gone from thinking that Edwards’ answers were not sufficient or helpful for Reformed faith and practice to thinking that they are. And that has come from the hard, twin tasks, first of understanding what Edwards actually said; and second of dealing with my own and my people’s hearts and pointing them to a deeper love for and obedience to the Savior.
John Piper once wrote: “At all costs read Religious Affections!”
The authoritative Yale University Press edition of Religious Affections is now available in paperback (under $20 instead of over $100 for the hardcover!).
Sam Storms has written a volume to help us understand Edwards’s argument here: Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards’s “Religious Affections”
Lucas’s book, God’s Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards, will be published this fall by Crossway.
