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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... concerning signs of grace in the Treatise concerning Religious Affections ( 1746 ) . In doing so , Chamberlain sheds new light on the evolution of his ideas regarding the nature of true religion — admittedly , one of his most celebrated ...
... concerning Religious Affec- tions . The pastoral situations faced by Shepard and Edwards had important similarities , as each dealt with the task of distinguishing the signs of true godliness from claims of sanctification resting on ...
... concerning the " perceptual and moral components of religious experience . " Edwards sets out to distinguish true religion , or " holy love , " from counterfeit or spurious love , using the language of understanding and will , belief ...
... concerning human depravity . Guelzo builds his case in part on the self - claims of Oberlin theo- logians , who began with Edwards's distinction between natural ability and moral inability . By accenting the former , both Oberlin ...
... concerning the human will . One other result of Park's studies was his championing of Nathanael Emmons as the principal figure in the nineteenth - century Edwardsian tradition . A few closing observations are in order concerning this ...
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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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