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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... more striking evidence of this fact exists than the recent publication of a new updated bibliography of works focusing on Edwards.3 An astonish- ing amount of scholarly attention is being lavished on him INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN J STEIN /
... fact , expect the rising tide of research to continue through 2003 and beyond . The essays that comprise this volume have been selected from among the papers delivered at the June 1994 conference . They tend to share a number of ...
... fact . 9 The June 1994 conference mirrored all of these concerns through its engagement with Edwards as historian , theologian , philosopher , moralist , pastor , preacher , and person . Each of the three clusters of essays that follow ...
... fact that more was at stake than simply points of ecclesiastical doctrine . At issue also was the definition of a covenanted people , Grasso shows how Edwards used the pulpit beginning already early in his years in Northampton to articu ...
... fact , these implications may have been devastat- ing , in Stoever's judgment . Who could possibly rise to the standards that Edwards established for true godliness ? Richard A. S. Hall's essay ( chapter 7 ) joins a longstanding debate ...
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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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