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The Nature of True Religion

Though trained to be logical and rational, Jonathan Edwards insisted that true religion is primarily rooted in the affections, not in reason. He wrote the famous Treatise on Religious Affections to prove his point, and in the treatise he reveals his own deep feelings of religious devotion.

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