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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... 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 position contrasted sharply with the judgments of his ...
... position him within larger religious and philosophical traditions . Paul R. Lucas's essay ( chapter 5 ) explores the ideas of a man who is acknowledged to have been a critical influence on Edwards : his grand- father and senior ...
... position in the communion controversy . By contrast , Proudfoot finds James's efforts at examining the perceptual and moral dimensions of religious experience less sophisticated and more limi- ted because his approach is less able to ...
... and debate , as evidenced by part III of this collection . Park used his position as a professor at Andover Seminary for forty - five years to both protect and interpret Edwardsianism . According to Conforti , Park xvi Introduction.
... position on the " exercise - taste " controversy concerning the human will . One other result of Park's studies was his championing of Nathanael Emmons as the principal figure in the nineteenth - century Edwardsian tradition . A few ...
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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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