Free Audio Download: Religious Affections
November 2, 2007
This month’s free audio download at ChristianAudio.com is Jonathan Edwards’s classic, Religious Affections.
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections stands as Edwards’s most penetrating interpretation of the awakenings of his time, not to mention one of the most penetrating of any time. 
As in Some Thoughts, he argued against the extremes of emotionalism on the one hand and intellectualism on the other. Affections were essential to true religion, but they had to be tested. First, Edwards lays out his religious psychology of affections, which encompassed both understanding and will and involved the total range of human faculties. Answering critics of the revival, Edwards then discusses at length a series of “negative” signs, or unreliable criteria for judging the graciousness of affections. Finally, and most famously, he provided twelve “positive” signs for self-examination. The twelfth sign, which Edwards gave the fullest treatment, was the importance of Christian practice as evidence of the state of the heart. Here, for Edwards, was the ultimate standard for visible sainthood.
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November 4th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Shane
I apoligize for leaving this in your comment, but I must have deleded your e-mail address.
I just wanted to thank you so much for blogging prayer for my wife Carol. Carol had her bilateral masectomy on Oct. 30. She is now home and we will be getting the pathology reports on her cancer that will tell us the best chemo treatments for her situation.
Carol is doing quite well and she wanted me to thank everyone who has been praying. Thanks again to everyone. I’ll keep you posted.