Weekly Blog

We apologize that due to some technical difficulties the second part of the discussion was lost. This is the first portion of the discussion which covers Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Christian Knowledge."

This is the handout given out during the class. It contains a timeline of Edwards’ life, and a brief annotated bibliography of resources to further study Edwards and his writings.

This was a paper Bret Hicks wrote for his seminary class on Jonathan Edwards. It gives his reasons for thinking that Edwards’ thought is very important for the situation confronting the modern church. Bret also gives an overview of how he would recommend people begin to read Edwards – which writings and sermons to read first, and which ones to wait until a basic understanding of Edwards has been attained.

This was a paper Bret wrote for his seminary class on Jonathan Edwards. It deals with the specific questions of whether unbelievers can really seek God, and if so, in what sense.

This was a paper Bret wrote for his seminary class on the Classic Writings for Personal Devotion. In it, Bret tries to summarize Edwards’ thoughts on revival and awakening, both personal and corporate. It includes Bret's understanding of Edwards’ thought on the relationship between Divine Sovereignty and human responsibility and action in revival and awakening, his views on how to judge if a revival was really a work of the Spirit of God or if it was merely a product of human emotion and activity, and his understanding of how Christians grow in their Christian walk.

This was a paper Bret wrote for his seminary class on the Church history from the Reformation to the present. In it, he had to compare and contrast the thought of Jonathan Edwards and the leaders of the “Toronto Blessing” on revival. Bret discusses the theology of each on the Divine Sovereignty and human responsibility/action in bringing about and sustaining revival. He also addresses the theologies on the subject of unusual physical manifestations during a revival. If you would like to understand how Edwards would probably have viewed several modern purported revivals, this is Bret's understanding from Edward's writings.