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By: Jonathan Edwards’s Apologetic « Blogmatics

Jonathan Edwards’s Apologetic « Blogmatics — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:38:04 +0000

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By: Jeff Downs

Jeff Downs — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:33:25 +0000

You may know this already, but we have Stephen Nichols addressing Edward's apologetic here and his practice here.

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:34:49 +0000

In reply to Camden Bucey. Camden: Thanks for the Heads Up on Hart's work. I respect him highly and learn from him always, but I sure am glad to have purchased Smart's work on this subject, I just got it yesterday. Helps to live in the same city as Heritage Books.

By: Jeffrey Waddington

Jeffrey Waddington — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:09:28 +0000

Chris

I stand by my characterization of Chauncy. I do not think you can so neatly disconnect his criticisms of the revival from where he eventually landed. This is not to accept everything that happened in the revival. I have rad the Chauncy material and am not impressed. Chauncy’s idea of spirituality is reasonableness.

By: Chris E

Chris E — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:41:25 +0000

Banner of Truth do sterling work in many ways, but I think their support for Edwards has to be read alongside their support of a particular type of 20th century British evangelism. When I read their work on Edwards, he starts to sound like a 17th century version of MLJ.

I think it was a bit unfair cast Chauncy’s arguments as – implicitly – that of a Unitarian. The critique of Edwards doesn’t necessarily slide off into heterodoxy.

By: joseph

joseph — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:44:38 +0000

I agree with Iain Murray’s beliefs, but as a historian he is not a critical historian. Hart has his bias also but he is a far more capable historian.

This was the greatest episode of Christ the Centre I believe.

By: Camden Bucey

Camden Bucey — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:10:39 +0000

Thanks Thomas. You may [or may not!] be interested in Darryl Hart’s interview on the OPC 75th anniversary. It is scheduled for publication in about two weeks. He gets into a bit of his Old Side views.

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:54:30 +0000

This was quite an interesting discussion, I will definitely look for his book. When mention is made of “mentalists” view of the Great Awakening, it seems that Daryl Hart, Mark Noll, and R. Scott Clark, make me nervous regarding their assessments of the Great Awakening. I love to listen to them to learn about Presbyterian history, but I trust Iain Murray far more as a historian of the Great Awakening. I wish Dr. Smart would have went into more detail about his concerns about the Gospel Coalition. I have always wondered if their evangelism and views of the “regulative principle” would have concerned good men like Jonathan Edwards.
By the way, I am adding my narration of the Sereno Dwight’s Life of J. Edwards to my podcast this week. Jeff W’s comments are always enlightening, you men have my respect as scholars! Thomas – Grand Rapids, MI