The End For Which God Created The World, By Jonathan Edwards

(Book Review)

The End For Which God Created The World, by Jonathan Edwards (Updated To Modern English by Jason Dollar)

Jason Dollar has done a great service for the modern reader in updating the language of this classic work of Jonathan Edwards.  But even in modern English Edwards is not easy to read.
  

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pastor, theologian, and philosopher.  He is considered by many to be the greatest theologian in American history.  In the book Edwards asks why did God create the world?  He concludes that it was created to glorify God.  The purpose of everything is to glorify God.  The purpose of humans is to glorify God as well.  They receive their greatest benefit and ultimate good when they glorify him.  Edwards makes the case for his position from reason and Scripture.  

Modern people need the message that Jonathan Edwards taught.  Modern man is purposeless and without direction.  This book puts it all together and shows us the big picture.  The modern church needs to rediscover Edwards.  It needs to recapture his vision of the greatness of God and his God centered view of all things.  Edwards was a brilliant, Biblical thinker.  We need men like him in our day.