Among other things, Edwards challenges the commonsense view of our culture that the material world is the “real” world. Edwards’ universe is essentially a universe of personal relationships. Reality is a communication of affections, ultimately of God’s love and creatures’ responses. Material things are transitory and ephemeral. Their meanings are found in their relation to the loves at the center of reality. Although they are transitory, they can have great eternal significance if they are recognized for what they are, signs or expressions of God’s love. - George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, 503.
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