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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... century , there is reason to believe that he would be fully engaged with watching the waning years of this millennium , probably urging his parish- ioners and his readers to be ready for an impending event of great signifi- cance . As a ...
... century . The lin- eage in this field extends from the patriarch of Edwards studies , Thomas A. Schafer , through a generation identified with established scholars , such as Roland Delattre and Wilson H. Kimnach , and another generation ...
... century world ; he serves for them as a window into that century . Others address perennial philosophical or theological ques- tions by means of engagement with his answers to those questions . Still others are most concerned about ...
... century ecumenical mindset . In chapter 4 Kenneth P. Minkema shows how Edwards's attack on the Deists and his defense of the unity and authority of biblical revelation became a dominant preoccupation during the last years of his life ...
Text, Context, Interpretation Stephen J. Stein. nineteenth - century religious and cultural patterns that flourished in the new American republic . In the second essay in part II William K. B. Stoever ( chapter 6 ) provides a detailed ...
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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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