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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... early religious revival in Northamp- ton and the later widespread outbreak of awakenings at the beginning of the 1740s . His exposition of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins became the occasion for reflection on the Christian's ...
... early in his years in Northampton to articu- late a position at variance with his grandfather and colleague , Solomon Stoddard , as he sought to reduce the gap between professed and real spiri- tuality in his congregation . Edwards's ...
... early New England , came to prominence in the years of the Antinomian controversy in Massachusetts . Through close textual study Stoever shows how Shepard's description of the signs of true godliness , as distinct from pretenses of the ...
... early years of his ministry taken sermon composition as an occasion to explore matters of faith and doc- trine , but in no other period did this exploration acquire such great breadth and depth . After 1740 , the treatise gradually came ...
... early 1740s , is inadequate . Certainly the Awakening shaped Edwards's argument in the Affections , but before George Whitefield even arrived in New England , Edwards had adopted the views that would establish his position as a moderate ...
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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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