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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... INFLUENCES 5. " The Death of the Prophet Lamented " : The Legacy of Solomon Stoddard PAUL R. LUCAS 69 6. The Godly ... Influence Edwards ? Their Common Critique of the Moral Sense Theory RICHARD A. S. HALL 8. Perception and Love in ...
... influence — remains a growth industry today . No 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 ...
... influence on subsequent gen- erations of American thinkers . And then there are the admirers — those who are convinced that he was religiously correct in his formulations of Christian thought and practices or those who simply stand in ...
... influence and comparison . By in- direction they are also arguing for the stature and significance of Edwards in the general world of Western thought and ideas . And they are attempt- ing to position him within larger religious and ...
... influence on Edwards . The usual way of engaging this question is to focus on their respective commitments to philosophical idealism . But taking his lead from a recent volume by Edwin S. Gaustad , 10 Hall argues that the place to look ...
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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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