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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... means of engagement with his answers to those questions . Still others are most concerned about Edwards's influence on subsequent gen- erations of American thinkers . And then there are the admirers — those who are convinced that he was ...
... life , namely , his defense of scriptural revelation against the sufficiency of reason and against the notion that one is able to arrive at true knowledge of God and divine realities by natural means . The Deists were xii Introduction.
Text, Context, Interpretation Stephen J. Stein. and divine realities by natural means . The Deists were mounting these chal- lenges to orthodox Christianity at the time . The linking of these two polemical targets helps us understand the ...
... means to address what Edwards considered to be the primary cause of Northamp- ton's declension , hypocrisy . Second , this sermon series was part of a speculative project concerning the signs of grace and the means of assurance that ...
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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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