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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... understanding his role and that of the Puritans in civil religion as well as his place in the larger tradition of New England theology . Gerald R. McDermott's essay ( chapter 3 ) on Edwards's hostility to Islam brings an entirely new ...
... understanding of both thinkers . In the last essay in part II Wayne Proudfoot ( chapter 8 ) brings his ana- lytical skills to bear on the text of the Treatise concerning Religious Affections with an eye toward underscoring the ...
... understanding and will , belief and desire . Proudfoot shows how this objective leads to Ed- wards's theory of signs , which still does not provide absolute certainty for distinguishing genuine religious affections from those driven by ...
... understanding of Edwards's relationship to the Enlightenment than that proposed many years ago by Perry Miller in his intellectual biography of Edwards.14 Part II suggests that other comparative studies might profitably be car- ried out ...
... understanding of the marriage bond developed by New England Puritans , Edwards characterizes the relation between Christ and the church as one not simply of willing subjection but of mutual com- panionship . Christ perfectly and ...
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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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