We were created for joy, yet our longing for it can go unfulfilled. How can we obtain it? Jonathan Edwards shows how true joy is found in our relationship with Jesus Christ alone.
Representing more than a decade of work and study, Everhard’s A Theology of Joy is a significant contribution to the study of Jonathan Edwards. Originally published by the JESociety, this newer edition includes a number of shorter essays that had previously been published elsewhere.
"In a way, reading Jonathan Edwards’s works is like reading an extended commentary on the first answer of the Shorter Catechism, 'Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever . . .' Better than any other writer I have studied, Edwards has shown me how these two great truths (God’s glory and man’s joy) can emerge as one, rather than repelling each other like the opposite ends of a magnet.
—DR. MATTHEW EVERHARD, the author, pastor of Gospel Fellowship PCA (Valencia, Pa.), adjunct professor at RPTS in Pittsburgh