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work_vv5bzxuocnahxdgec3ftcj346q	Belden C. Lane	Jonathan Edwards on Beauty, Desire, and the Sensory World	2004	29	.pdf	application/pdf	13939	903	67	crisis, he urged, is the exercise of delight—the enjoyment of all the manifestations of God's glory in the natural world around us. My theme here focuses on Edwards's understanding of the new capacity to sense the sweetness of things that believers of Scripture and the magnificence of the natural world in a common apprehension of God's glory. Edwards continually sought to integrate mind and heart in the apprehension of both God's beauty and the earth's wonder. beings that mirror directly or indirectly the splendor and beauty of God. My thesis is this: For Jonathan Edwards, creation functions as a school of desire, training regenerate human beings in the intimate sensory apprehension of God's glory mirrored in the beauty of the world. natural world enlarges the human capacity to sense the fullness of God's Nature teaches us God's beauty which in turn drives us to its continual replication in time and space.	./cache/work_vv5bzxuocnahxdgec3ftcj346q.pdf	./txt/work_vv5bzxuocnahxdgec3ftcj346q.txt