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The Only Rule of Our Faith and Practice
Barshinger, David
Barshinger, David
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"In addition to his many roles, including pastor, theologian, author, and missionary, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was also a devoted student of the Bible.1 At age nineteen, he resolved “to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.”2 His massive output of sermons expositing biblical passages and of treatises addressing theological matters using Scripture testifies to his dedication to this task, and his personal manuscripts on the Bible further demonstrate his unswerving discipline in studying the Old and New Testaments. The nature of Edwards’s biblical interpretation, however, has attracted some debate over the liberty he used in making sense of the Scriptures. Stephen J. Stein, a leading scholar on Edwards and the Bible,3 argues that Edwards’s spiritual interpretation was boundless. He acknowledges that “Edwards shared certain assumptions with the Reformed tradition,” but qualifies that “in other ways he departed from prevailing patterns of Protestant exegesis"
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2009
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