I am happy to announce today that I am relaunching my doctoral dissertation in a new, updated print paperback form. A Theology of Joy: Jonathan Edwards and Eternal Happiness in the Holy Trinity is now available again after a long hiatus of being out of print.

This work is my magnum opus on Edwards, which I wrote during my time at Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) studying under my supervisor Dr. Michael Allen. A Theology of Joy was almost immediately selected for publication with the JESociety after being defended for my doctoral degree.

This work is not overly complicated with academic or scholastic formatting. It has been completely reworked as an approachable book for those with moderate interest and background in Jonathan Edwards studies. One does not need to be an expert in Edwardsean theology to gain meaningfully from this book.

The chapters of the main book are as follows:

1. The Quest for Joy
2. Joy According to Scripture
3. Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Joy
4. Comparative Theological Studies
5. A Survey of Edwards’s Important Writings
6. The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards
7. Joy Amidst the Revivals
8. Broadly Identifiable Themes in Edwards’s Theology of Joy
9. Several More Important Themes
10. Celebrating Joy Like Edwards: A Pastoral Model
11. Guarding the Pastor’s Heart
12. Conclusion

Much of this work was developed as I struggled with joy in my own life during times of stress from the work of the ministry. I found Edwards to be an especially helpful writer during my own times of duress. I found happiness almost everywhere in Edwards’s writings including his personal writings, theological treatises, sermons, and revival writings. If you are looking for joy, I can guarantee you that you will find much substantial and real happiness herein.

This new updated edition is an expanded print edition, and now contains nine short essays and articles as a part two in the back of the book. Several of these items were published elsewhere including Desiring God, Logos Academic, and Modern Reformation.

Part Two of the work, the included essays that expand the original edition include the following articles, also previously published elsewhere:

1. Three Years in the Mind of a Genius
2. Jonathan Edwards’s Blank Bible
3. The Organizational Genius of Jonathan Edwards
4. Jonathan Edwards’s Complex Views on Race
5. Jonathan Edwards: A Model of High Pastoral Productivity
6. Three Disciplines of a Happy Christian Leader
7. The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards
8. Edwards, Warfield, and Plato on the Immortality of the Soul
9. 300th Anniversary of Edwards’s “Resolutions”

I am thankful for the JESociety which originally published this book. But for several reasons which I will explain in a forthcoming YouTube video, I requested that it be removed from JESociety Press’s catalog so that I could relaunch this project under a new banner of INDY-REF (Independent Reformed Media). I am thankful that Dr. Rob Boss let this book go out of print so that I could relaunch it with more of my own creative input and direction for publishing.

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Here is a video describing the release: