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The Religious Affections Paperback – August 21, 2013

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In one of the unsurpassed religious masterpieces produced by an American writer, Jonathan Edwards distinguishes between true and false religion by defining a believer's correct affections and explaining their importance. He further identifies the distinction between genuine-seeming and legitimate affections.
A Christian preacher and one of the greatest theologians of the English-speaking world, Jonathan Edwards played a critical role in the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," remains a classic of early American literature, and The Religious Affections constitutes essential reading for divinity students and students of American religious history.
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    August 21, 2013
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  6. ISBN-10
    0486491021
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    978-0486491028
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Jonathan Edwards was a Christian preacher and one of the greatest theologians of the English-speaking world. He played a critical role in the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. Edwards' famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," remains a classic of early American literature.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Reprint edition (August 21, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486491021
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486491028
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
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Customers find this book well worth their time and consider it essential reading for all believers, providing a wonderful explanation of true Christian affections. The readability receives mixed feedback, with several customers noting it's not an easy read.

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Customers find the book well worth their time and consider it a must-read, with one customer describing it as a classic read for all Christians.

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"...Edwards takes getting used to. But it is very worthwhile. I'm currently reading it for the third time and I continue to find it useful...." Read more

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Customers praise the book's explanation of true Christian affections and consider it essential reading for all believers, with one customer noting it is saturated with golden nuggets of wisdom.

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  • Frank
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Explanation of True Christian Affections
    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2025
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    Edwards leaves no stone unturned in the endeavor to evaluate the heart in knowing whether it is truly devoted to Christ. He explains the pitfalls of false beliefs and the goes on to fully elucidate what it means to live as one who believes. This book is well worth your time if you consider the importance of pondering eternity and your place in it.
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  • Matthew Everhard
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Theologically Significant Works on Revival and Regeneration
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2014
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    Overview: The Religious Affections is for very good reason considered one of the most important works of Jonathan Edwards in particular and one of the most excellent and helpful treatises on Christian spirituality in general. Caught in both the glory and the drama of the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards was tasked with the responsibility to defend God’s mighty outpouring of grace from both its detractors and its extremists.

    In this great work, Edwards sets out to accomplish three major goals (1) he shows from Scripture that the religious affections (“the more vigorous and sensible exercises of the inclination and will of the soul”) are indeed true manifestations of real Christian spirituality and of the holy life (2) he warns of a number of “experiences” that cannot either verify or falsify the reality of one’s professed conversion and (3) he enumerates several factors that are indicative of true conversion and regeneration. Chief among these last factors (as the quote below demonstrates) is the fruit of holy living—or Christian practice—carried out in the believer’s life.

    Application: This great work has a number of applications and uses. First and foremost it helps to delineate what true conversion looks like. In Edwards’ day it was hard to prove that one was truly “converted.” Often the Puritans looked for a series of finely ordered “steps” in one’s testimony of professed faith. The burden of proof lay heavy. In our day, it is much easier—we must simply give an “altar call” story, or a similar anecdote of “accepting Jesus into our heart.” Edwards speaks to both extremes by evaluating the conversion experience with a truly Biblical grid of analysis.

    Edwards shows that true conversion does indeed transform both the inward man, in his “affections” (love, joy, fear of the Lord, etc.) as well as the outward man in living out the will of God in his daily experience. Pastors who are prayerfully evaluating their flock, as well as those unsure of their own salvation, will find this work deeply helpful in this regard.

    Critique: While this particular reviewer is mostly sympathetic to Edwards’ position about conversion, many of my charismatic and Pentecostal friends will likely find some fault with Edwards’ teaching on the inner-life of spiritual experience. Throughout, Edwards is particularly hard on those who claim to have received such things as visions of Christ or strong “impressions” of particular Scripture passages upon the heart as being too easy to manipulate and falsify. While he is surely right in showing that these things cannot prove that one is a Christian, some readers (but not all) will feel he has gone too far in assessing the supernatural revelations of the Holy Spirit to the human mind in a negative fashion.

    Best Quote: “From what has been said, it is manifest that Christian practice, or a holy life, is a great and distinguishing sign of true and saving grace. But I may go further and assert that it is the chief of all the signs of grace, both as an evidence of the sincerity of professors unto others, and also to their own consciences” (p. 326-32).

    -Matthew Everhard is the Senior Pastor of Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Brooksville, Florida
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  • Brian G. Hedges
    5.0 out of 5 stars The most profound analysis of spiritual experience ever written
    Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2007
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    The Religious Affections is probably the most profound analysis of spiritual experience ever written - and by the most brilliant philosopher/theologian to ever come from North America (and possibly the English language).

    Jonathan Edwards wrote this book after the Great Awakening with which he was closely involved. He wrote as both a friend, defending the authenticity of revivals - and also as a critique, warning against putting trust in things which were not certain signs of genuine Spirit-wrought affections.

    His treatise takes three parts. In part one he defines his terms and gives twelve reasons why genuine religion (i.e. Christian spirituality - "religion," in Edwards day, did not have the negative connotations that it carries today) consists much in the affections. The affections, for Edwards, are more than mere emotions - they are the strong and lively inclinations of the will, seated in the human heart.

    Part two discusses twelve things which are not certain signs of true religious affections. These are things which Edwards warned should not be trusted as evidences of grace OR discarded as evidences that the Holy Spirit has NOT worked in a saving way. They are not indicators one way or the other.

    Part three is the most lenghty and examines twelve things which are signs of a true work of the grace, wrought by God's holy Spirit in the heart. This is where Edwards is at his best - carefully, logically, biblically, and passionately describing the true evidences of regeneration. His analysis is keen, his thoughts clear, his argument orderly, his scholarship extensive, his knowledge of Scripture profuse, and his understanding of the human heart profound.

    This particular edition - produced by Yale and edited by John Smith - is the best critical edition in print. The introduction and notes on the text are very helpful, as Smith summarizes Edwards' arguments and backgrounds the Puritan writers and their books which Edwards quotes in Religious Affections. This volume also includes Edwards' related correspondence with Thomas Gillespie from Scotland - this being the first time the complete correspondence has been printed in the same volume with the Affections.

    This is not an easy book to read. Edwards takes getting used to. But it is very worthwhile. I'm currently reading it for the third time and I continue to find it useful. I highly recommend it for pastors and preachers and all Christians who yearn for a personal and corporate work of the Spirit in revival and spiritual awakening.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Grande obra
    Reviewed in Brazil on August 14, 2018
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    Uma obra que todi cristão deve ler...
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  • Kevin O'Connor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, thorough and utterly biblical.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2015
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    Edward's work in this treatise is thorough and biblical. It is not easy reading, but it is some of the best reading I have ever done on Christian experience and assurance. This is am incredibly helpful book and I gladly recommend it. As long as Christians will need to discern between true and false religion, this book will continue to be read.
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  • Marc-Andre
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of Edward's Finest
    Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2025
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    Per the title... however, I will add that it's not the easiest (nor the hardest) to read. English is not modern, though still very manageable. Just might need some getting used to. The books could use some improvements in the form of more chapter breaks and the like. But that is all.
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    Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2025
    Per the title... however, I will add that it's not the easiest (nor the hardest) to read. English is not modern, though still very manageable. Just might need some getting used to. The books could use some improvements in the form of more chapter breaks and the like. But that is all.
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  • Carole "Reggae"
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book.
    Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2014
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    Wonderful little book, full of wisdom.
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  • C Maciver
    5.0 out of 5 stars My overall view.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2018
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    An important work by which we may examine ourselves whether we are genuine believers or not. I would highly recommend it to others.
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