In my Church history class I was asked to read A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards and to give some commentary on it.  The below are my first thoughts when I read the text.  Incidentally, I have just taught over the Descartes-Locke-Hume-Kant debate over the nature of the self during the Enlightenment period, so that certainly is coloring how I read Edwards this weekend.  I really don't kn...