Blessed With Evil

The Glory of the Blessed Son

Adding her distinctive voice to lively conversations about the work and legacy of Jonathan Edwards, Larsen shows that Edwards thinks boldly about the freedom of the Father and the Son within their blessed fellowship in the Spirit. She identifies profound insights into the relationship between the divine being and the divine economy by focusing on Edwards's understanding of the Son as he undertakes the work of ad extra glorification-the work by which God is externally blessed through God's communication to creatures. In addition to careful analyses of the 'covenantal' and 'evocative' registers in which Edwards describes the fittingness of the Son's redemptive mission, Larsen concludes by drawing resources from Edwards's Christology that speak to key issues of freedom and aesthetics in Reformed thought today.

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Bless and Do Not Curse

This book retrieves the moral theology of blessings of Thomas Aquinas for our times. It provides key theological insights for a reading of recent Catholic magisterial pronouncements. This reading avoids the hermeneutics of suspicion and adopts, in turn, a hermeneutics of reform and continuity. Its key organizational structure is a theology of the four chief virtues within which blessings must be understood: veracity, charity, religion, and prudence.