The Theology of Jonathan Edwards Quotes

“The Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate himself in an image of his own excellency. He communicates himself properly only to spirits; and they only are capable of being proper images of his excellency, for they only are properly beings.…Yet he communicates a sort of shadow or glimpse of his excellencies to bodies, which as we have seen, are but the shadows of being, and not real beings.”
― Michael James McClymond, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards

“This was his signal that true love not only has God for its source but is the very life of God in his saints. Love is the same principle, whether expressed by God or humanity, to God or human beings. Both loves, divine and human, are “by the same work of the Spirit,” and the two have “the same motives.” In other words, God and the saints are both loved “for holiness’ sake … for [God’s] excellency, the beauty of his nature.” All true love arises from seeing the beauty of God’s holiness.30”
― Michael James McClymond, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards

“The beauty of true virtue consists in this: the created beings’ mutual consent and unity that is an image of the Triune Persons’ infinite mutual consent and harmonious unity.”
― Michael James McClymond, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards