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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... ideas for their own sake and others who see them reflecting eternal truths , and finally , historians who may follow one or an- other or all of these lines of development.8 It appears that a wide variety of motives operates among those ...
... ideas regarding the nature of true religion — admittedly , one of his most celebrated and central theological concerns . Christopher Grasso ( chapter 2 ) also utilizes unpublished manuscript sermons by Edwards in his analysis of the ...
... ideas of a man who is acknowledged to have been a critical influence on Edwards : his grand- father and senior ... idea of a national covenant , was also informed by his reading of seventeenth - century English authors , including ...
... ideas through subsequent generations . In all cases the desire is to make sense of Edwards's writings . Several points of intersection emerge from these essays . What is most striking is the continuing scholarly focus on Edwards's ...
... ideas on the sources that he read . Or to put the matter another way , one effect of comparative studies is likely to be the reduction of the aura of genius surrounding Edwards and the more re- alistic presentation of him as a product ...
Contenido
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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