Unpublished Essay on the Trinity

Name: Unpublished Essay on the Trinity
Author: Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was an American Congregationalist preacher and theologian in colonial New England. Pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, he was a leading voice of the Great Awakening — his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is famous — and later a missionary to Native Americans at Stockbridge. Works such as Religious Affections and The Life of David Brainerd, and many of his sermons, fill our library.

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First published: 1758
Category: Theology
Length: 8k words · about 1 hour
Chapters: 1

About this book

A manuscript essay on the doctrine of the Trinity by Jonathan Edwards, left unpublished at his death in 1758. Edwards reflects on the eternal relations of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and on how the doctrine illuminates God's perfections. A window into the private notebooks of one of America's greatest theologians.