02682nam 2200517 450 991078932430332120230801232553.01-61376-224-0(CKB)3400000000127742(MH)013463215-X(SSID)ssj0000822768(PQKBManifestationID)11442052(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822768(PQKBWorkID)10759628(PQKB)10837078(MiAaPQ)EBC4533147(OCoLC)830023862(MdBmJHUP)muse19014(Au-PeEL)EBL4533147(CaPaEBR)ebr11214616(EXLCZ)99340000000012774220160611h20122012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrJonathan Edwards and the gospel of love /Ronald StoryAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :University of Massachusetts Press,2012.©20121 online resource (xi, 165 p. )Includes indexes.1-55849-982-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Life -- Personae -- Tropes -- Charity -- Community -- Love.Jonathan Edwards has long epitomized the Puritan preacher as fiery scold, fixated on the inner struggle of the soul and the eternal flames of hell. In this book, Ronald Story offers a fundamentally different view of Edwards, revealing a profoundly social minister who preached a gospel of charity and community bound by love. Drawing on Edward's own sermons and notebooks, the author reveals Edwards' belief that divine love expressed in the human family should take us beyond tribalism, sectarianism, provincialism, and nationality. Edwards offers hope, in the manner of Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King Jr., and other great "improvers," for the coming of a world without want and war. This book represents a new departure in Edwards studies, revising the long-standing yet misleading stereotype of a man whose lessons of charity, community, and love we need now more than ever. --from back cover.285.8092Story Ronald1516029MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789324303321Jonathan Edwards and the gospel of love3752218UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress