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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... arguing for the stature and significance of Edwards in the general world of Western thought and ideas . And they are attempt- ing to position him within larger religious and philosophical traditions . Paul R. Lucas's essay ( chapter 5 ) ...
... argument con- cerning religious experience . To effect this result , he utilizes William James's Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ) as a comparative foil . Proudfoot is careful to note the radically different situations and ...
... arguing that the narrow doctrinal definition of the Edwardsian tradition needs to be scrapped in favor of a definition of Edwardsianism as a multifaceted " theological culture . " He attempts to show the range of institutions reflecting ...
... argue that Edwards had both a pastoral and a specu- lative purpose in choosing to write his first sermon series on ... argument in the Affections . The resemblance between these two texts demonstrates , I will argue , that the ...
Text, Context, Interpretation Stephen J. Stein. demonstrates , I will argue , that the traditional interpretation , which ... argument in the Affections , but before George Whitefield even arrived in New England , Edwards had adopted the ...
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3 | |
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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