God's passion for His glory : living the vision of Jonathan Edwards, with the complete text of The end for which God created the world

Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE A Personal Encounter with Jonathan Edwards by John Piper xi XV CHAPTER ONE The End for Which God Created the World 21 Why Publish an Old Book? A Personal and Public Concern CHAPTER TWO Jonathan Edwards, The Man and His Life 49 Learning from an Unmodern Evangelical CHAPTER THREE: Jonathan Edwards, A Mind in Love with God 77 The Private Life of a Modern Evangelical CHAPTER FOUR: Jonathan Edwards, Enjoying God and the 99 Transformation of Culture The Public Life of a Modern Evangelical PART TWO The End for Which God Created the World by Jonathan Edwards A Note on How to Read I The End for Which God Created the World Concerning the Text Used in This Edition of 121 The End for Which God Created the World INTRODUCTION: Containing Explanations of Terms and 125 General Positions CHAPTER ONE Wherein Is Considered What Reason Teaches 137 Concerning This Affair SECTION ONE Some things observed in general which 137 reason dictates SECTION TWO: Some further observations concerning those 146 things which reason leads us to suppose God aimed at in the creation of the world Wherein it is considered how, on the supposition 152 of God's making the aforementioned things his last end, he manifests a supreme and ultimate regard to himself in all his works Some objections considered, which may be made 162 against the reasonableness of what has been said of God making himself his last end Wherein it Is Inquired What Is to Be Learned from 183 Holy Scriptures Concerning God's Last End in the Creation of the World The Scriptures represent God as making himself 183 his own last end in the creation of the world Wherein some positions are advanced concerning a 185 just method of arguing in this affair from what we find in the Holy Scriptures Particular texts of Scripture which show that God's 191 glory is an ultimate end of the creation Places of Scripture that lead us to suppose that God 210 created the world for his name, to make his perfections known; and that he made it for his praise Places of Scripture from whence it may be argued 220 that communication of good to the creature was one thing which God had in view as an ultimate end of the creation of the world Wherein is considered what is meant by the glory of 229 God and the name of God in Scripture, when spoken of as God's end in his works Showing that the ultimate end of the creation 241 of the world is but one, and what that one end is A Note on Resources: Desiring God Ministries Scripture Index Person Index Subject Index 253 255 261 263