Beauty And Sensibility In The Thought Of Jonathan Edwards

Author : Roland Delattre
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 254 pages
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Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597526135

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Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards by Roland Delattre Pdf

This illuminating analysis of Jonathan Edwards' philosophical-theological-ethical program focuses on his concept of beauty as our central clue to the nature of reality and the life of God. Delattre shows that beauty not only provides Edwards with a model for the manner of divine governance but operates throughout his thought as both the goal and means of redemption. Essential to his understanding of the operation of beauty as the law of moral order is Edwards' aesthetic/affectional model of the self, which corresponds to his aesthetic articulation of the system of being and good. Thus the distinguishing mark of Edwards' theology--his elevation to centrality of both the primary beauty of being's cordial consent to being and the secondary beauty of harmony and proportion--is shown to be the key to his interpretation of the dynamics of the moral and spiritual life.

Author : Roland André Delattre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:b68022451

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Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards by Roland André Delattre Pdf

Author : William J. Danaher
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 348 pages
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Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227376

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The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards by William J. Danaher Pdf

Examining the theological ethics of Jonathan Edwards, William Danaher Jr. shows that Edwards's doctrine of the Trinity both was foundational to Edwards's thought and is the necessary framework for understanding the theological and moral vision expressed in his writings. This Trinitarian interpretation identifies what distinctive contribution Edwards makes to contemporary Christian ethics, particularly concerning the nature of virtue, the will, sin, evil, and love. The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.

Author : John Cunningham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781329185142

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Jonathan Edwards and the Trinitarian Shape of Beauty by John Cunningham Pdf

This dissertation is a theological analysis of the trinitarian shape of Jonathan Edwards' aesthetics of beauty. The contributions of this dissertation lie chiefly in three areas. The primary aim of this study is to advance the burgeoning field of the study of Jonathan Edwards by elucidating his views of beauty. In so doing, I present him as a rich source for the theological engagement of beauty, which could serve not only the field of Edwards studies, but also that of theological aesthetics more broadly.

Author : Louis J. Mitchell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532603594

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Jonathan Edwards on the Experience of Beauty by Louis J. Mitchell Pdf

Jonathan Edwards on the Experience of Beauty relates Edwards' idea of beauty to his understanding of the psychology of religious experience. In his vocabulary of the language of beauty Edwards articulates a traditional understanding of beauty in the various relations that constitute primary and secondary beauty. All beauty, however, is ultimately founded on the beauty of God's Trinitarian being. Edwards' concept of the "sense of the heart," related to his psychology of religious experience, is articulated as an infusion of God's beauty. This experience results in a new perception and manifestation of holiness and beauty in the lives of the saints, both individually and corporately. True believers are to be "proportioned Christians," showing forth beauty in their affections. Edwards explicated this perspective in sermons, treatises--especially Religious Affections--and in a number of cases he presented, including the religious experiences of David Brainerd, Sarah Edwards, and his own awakening and conversion. In these cases, the language of beauty plays a prominent descriptive role. In summary, Jonathan Edwards on the Experience of Beauty shows the importance of Edwards' idea of beauty for his understanding of genuine religious experience. Edwards defines true or genuine religion as an experience of God's beauty that becomes manifested in the beauty of the affections. Further, in articulating that understanding, he utilized the vocabulary of his language of beauty. For Jonathan Edwards, beauty is the structure of genuine religious experience.

Author : Stephen A. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004143005

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Virtue Reformed by Stephen A. Wilson Pdf

Drawing on Protestant scholasticism, Puritan "precisionism," and virtue ethics, "Virtue Reformed" offers a comprehensive rereading of the ethical position of American philosopher-theologian Jonathan Edwards and his fascinating struggle to be both forwarder of the Reformation and participant in the Enlightenment.

Author : William M. Schweitzer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
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Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567195227

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God is a Communicative Being by William M. Schweitzer Pdf

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Author : Norman Fiering
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 408 pages
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Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597526180

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Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context by Norman Fiering Pdf

The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age. Moral philosophy in this era was so all-encompassing in its claims that it encroached seriously on traditional religion. In response, Edwards presented a detailed analysis and criticism of secular moral philosophy in order to demonstrate its inadequacy, and he formulated a system that he believed was demonstrably superior to the existing secular systems. In this comprehensive study, Norman Fiering skillfully integrates Edwards's work on ethics into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Continental philosophy and isolates Edwards's particular contributions to the ethical thought of his time. In addition, Fiering traces the chronological development of Edwards's thought, showing the relationship between his wide reading and his writing.

Author : R. C. De Prospo
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874132819

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Theism in the Discourse of Jonathan Edwards by R. C. De Prospo Pdf

This book proposes that a new semiotic category called theism can more intelligibly classify the discursive pattern that precedes modern humanism in American literature than such standard historicist categories as Puritanism or Calvinism or medievalism, and that the writings of Jonathan Edwards exemplify this theist discursive pattern.

Author : Oliver Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199755295

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Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation by Oliver Crisp Pdf

In Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation, Oliver Crisp considers two central themes in Edwards's thought, namely, his doctrine of God and his understanding of the created order, and how God and creation interrelate. Crisp argues that Edwards offers some truly original insights on these twin loci that have important implications for current theological discussion. What emerges is a picture of Edwards's understanding of God's relationship to the created order that differs in important respects from those offered by several influential recent interpreters. Crisp does not flinch from showing where Edwards made mistakes as well as where he offers fresh insights. Edwards is shown to be at once relevant to current discussion of issues like perfect being theology, panentheism, divine freedom or union with Christ, while remaining something of an idiosyncratic figure whose idealism and commitment to an uncompromising theological determinism can seem out of step with certain modern sensibilities. But, argues Crisp, even if we disagree with the conclusions Edwards reaches, which sometimes jar with our own intuitions about the divine nature or the created order, the clarity, rigor and sheer originality of his thinking offer an important set of themes and ideas with which contemporary theologians can fruitfully engage as they set about the task of constructive theology.

Author : M.X. Lesser
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780802862433

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Reading Jonathan Edwards by M.X. Lesser Pdf

This compilation of reader response to Jonathan Edwards, spanning 276 years, includes a reprint of two earlier works ? Jonathan Edwards: A Reference Guide (1981) and Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography (1994) ? and the publication of a third, a gathering of commentary from 1994 to 2005. Nearly 140 essays have been added to the first and second works, while the last new gathering ? which includes a celebration of the tercentenary of Edwards??'s birth ? adds another 700 to the whole. The text preserves the pattern of arranging items alphabetically within a given year and of recording cross-references. Essays in a collection are annotated serially rather than alphabetically. Each of the three sections is self-contained with an introduction and annotated bibliography of its own. Adding to the immense value of this work to Edwards scholars are the chronology of Edwards??'s works, listed by date and by short and long title, which precedes the entire work, and the three comprehensive indexes ? of authors and titles, of subjects, and additions to the previous volumes.

Author : Gerald R McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195373431

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Understanding Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R McDermott Pdf

This title is an introduction to Jonathan Edwards (1703-58). It looks at subjects which Edwards considered vitally important such as revival, Bible, typology, aesthetics, literature and preaching, philosophy and world religions.

Author : Michael J. McClymond,Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199791682

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The Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Michael J. McClymond,Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award for Theology/Ethics Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thought and include in-depth discussions of the extensive secondary literature on Edwards as well as Edwards's own writings. Its opening chapters set out Edwards's historical and personal theological contexts. The next thirty chapters connect Edwards's theological loci in the temporally-ordered way in which he conceptualized the theological enterprise-beginning with the triune God in eternity with his angels to the history of redemption as an expression of God's inner reality ad extra, and then back to God in eschatological glory. The authors analyze such themes as aesthetics, metaphysics, typology, history of redemption, revival, and true virtue. They also take up such rarely-explored topics as Edwards's missiology, treatment of heaven and angels, sacramental thought, public theology, and views of non-Christian religions. Running throughout the volume are what the authors identify as five basic theological constituents: trinitarian communication, creaturely participation, necessitarian dispositionalism, divine priority, and harmonious constitutionalism. Later chapters trace his influence on and connections with later theologies and philosophies in America and Europe. The result is a multi-layered analysis that treats Edwards as a theologian for the twenty-first-century global Christian community, and a bridge between the Christian West and East, Protestantism and Catholicism, conservatism and liberalism, and charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

Author : Jeffrey C. Waddington
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625648600

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The Unified Operations of the Human Soul by Jeffrey C. Waddington Pdf

This book endeavors to examine and critically assess the theological anthropology of Jonathan Edwards with a view to considering how this anthropology coheres with his apologetic methodology. Specifically, the question has been raised whether Edwards' doctrine of man is consistent with the picture painted of Jonathan Edwards by John Gerstner that he was the epitome of the classical apologist. It is argued that Edwards practiced an eclectic apologetic sans apologetic self-awareness. In other words, Edwards was a child of his training and time.

Author : Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781467448970

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The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia by Harry S. Stout Pdf

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. A fountainhead of modern evangelicalism, Edwards wore many hats during his lifetime—theologian, philosopher, pastor and town leader, preacher, missionary, college president, family man, among others. With nearly four hundred entries, this encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging perspective on Edwards, offering succinct synopses of topics large and small from his life, thought, and work. Summaries of Edwards’s ideas as well as descriptions of the people and events of his times are all easy to find, and suggestions for further reading point to ways to explore topics in greater depth. Comprehensive and reliable, with contributions by 169 premier Edwards scholars from throughout the world, The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia will long stand as the standard reference work on this significant, extraordinary person.