Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, InterpretationStephen J. Stein Indiana University Press, 1996 M11 22 - 240 páginas "This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." -- Religious Studies Review "... gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." -- Choice "... this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." -- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Here is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts -- Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue -- as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons. |
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... Edwards's birth in 1703. Before that anniversary , however , the world will mark the coming of a new millennium , a moment which promises to overshadow all other celebrations . In all likelihood festivities surrounding the year 2000 ...
... Edwards is the frequency of major conferences focusing on him and his work . In June 1994 , for instance , more than one ... Edwards's texts constitute a working canon for those in the field . ( Admittedly , it is an expanding canon , as ...
... Edwards today . In other words , the reason why so many scholars will attend conferences on Edwards and write so many essays and books about him is not singular but multiple . Some scholars are preoccupied with Edwards's eighteenth ...
... Edwards's position contrasted sharply with the judgments of his contemporaries , as Grasso makes clear in the essay . In the controversy with his congregation in the late 1740s , Edwards consistently worked to strengthen the role of the ...
... Edwards's judgments . McDermott's search for some redeeming quality in the judgments about Islam reflects a late twentieth - century ecumenical mindset . In chapter 4 Kenneth P. Minkema shows how Edwards's attack on the Deists and his ...
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Religious Discourse CHRISTOPHER GRASSO | 19 |
GERALD R MCDERMOTT | 39 |
and The Harmony of the Old and New Testament | 52 |
Part II | 67 |
True Godliness WILLIAM K B STOEVER | 85 |
Moral Sense Theory RICHARD A S HALL | 100 |
Evangelical Women Making Sense of Late | 175 |
Edwards A Park and the Creation of the New England Theology | 193 |
INDEX | 211 |
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Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation Stephen J. Stein Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |