Jonathan Edwards And The American Experience

Author : Nathan O. Hatch,Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195060775

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Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience by Nathan O. Hatch,Harry S. Stout Pdf

Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these disciplines discuss him in relation to different intellectual traditions, Edwards scholarship remains segmented. This volume represents the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contributions to American culture. Its fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence. Together, they provide the fullest account to date of his role in the development of the American consciousness. This volume is the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contribution to the development of the American consciousness. Fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence.

Author : Nathan O. Hatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : OCLC:1150100809

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Jonathon Edwards and the American Experience by Nathan O. Hatch Pdf

Author : Nathan O. Hatch,Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195363005

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Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience by Nathan O. Hatch,Harry S. Stout Pdf

Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these disciplines discuss him in relation to different intellectual traditions, Edwards scholarship remains segmented. This volume represents the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contributions to American culture. Its fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence. Together, they provide the fullest account to date of his role in the development of the American consciousness. This volume is the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contribution to the development of the American consciousness. Fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence.

Author : Barbara B. Oberg,Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195344875

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Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture by Barbara B. Oberg,Harry S. Stout Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus placing them in categories as different and opposed as "traditional" and "modern." In these essays--by such scholars as William Breitenbach, Edwin Gaustad, Elizabeth Dunn, and Ruth Bloch--polemical contrasts disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture is a valuable addition to scholarship on American literature and thought.

Author : Donald L. Gelpi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781556355707

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Varieties of Transcendental Experience by Donald L. Gelpi Pdf

This study traces the critique of Enlightenment modernism that began with Ralph Waldo Emerson and culminated in the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce and the mature Josiah Royce. Varieties of Transcendental Experience argues that these thinkers provide a constructive alternative to deconstructionist postmodernism that is compatible with the Christian faith.

Author : Gerald R McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Stephen J. Stein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253114594

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Jonathan Edwards's Writings by Stephen J. Stein Pdf

"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.

Author : Glenn R. Kreider
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076182670X

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Jonathan Edwards's Interpretation of Revelation 4:1-8:1 by Glenn R. Kreider Pdf

The Bible was at the center of Jonathan Edwards' intellectual and ministerial life. As an eighteenth century theologian-pastor, the Scriptures were the focus of his work and the perspective through which he viewed his world. Edwards had a particular interest in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, devoting a notebook to the collection of observations and thoughts from his reading and reflection. This book examines Edwards' interpretation of Revelation 4-8 as seen in his working notebooks and theological treatises and sermons and then compares his views with some of his major contemporary biblical interpreters. Edwards employs a typological hermeneutical method, arguing that typology is the language God uses to communicate and this language can be learned both from explicit typology in Scripture as well as from the biblical author's implicit use of types. In the application of this typological hermeneutics, Edwards not only interprets all of Scripture Christologically, but also views the natural world and secular history as types of Christ.

Author : John J. Bombaro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630878122

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Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Reality by John J. Bombaro Pdf

Since the publication of Sang Hyun Lee's revolutionary commentary, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, scholars have considered the possibilities of understanding Jonathan Edwards's thought in terms of dispositional laws, forces, and habits. While some scholars reject the notion of a dispositional ontology in Edwards, others have taken the concept of disposition in his thought beyond the usage the Northampton minister ever indicated, especially with respect to soteriological considerations. The preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is made to be an inclusivist, if not a crypto-universalist. Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality substantiates that Edwards, in an effort to combat deistic and materialistic Enlightenment paradigms, employs dispositions in his philosophy, but that his radical theocentrism and Calvinistic particularism established its boundaries within his apologetical reconsideration of spatiotemporal and metaphysical reality. Within his "spiritual vision" of reality, Edwards leaves no stone unturned: history and even the reprobate find inherent value and a positive functional role not only in God's program of self-glorification but as manifestations of divine being--the damned are "deformities" in God. The logic of Edwards's theocentric vision of reality pushes his ideas to the limits of acceptable Reformed orthodoxy, and sometimes beyond those limits.

Author : Amos Yong,Steven M. Studebaker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567687890

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Pentecostal Theology and Jonathan Edwards by Amos Yong,Steven M. Studebaker Pdf

This volume brings 'America's theologian' and one of the fastest growing forms of Christianity into dialogue. Edwards is a fruitful source for Pentecostal investigation for historical and theological reasons. Edwards and Pentecostals descend from a common historical tradition-North American Evangelicalism. From revivalism and religious/charismatic experience to pneumatology they also share common theological interests. Though sharing a common history and core theological concerns, no critical conversation between Pentecostals and Edwards and their fields of scholarship has occurred. This is the first volume that provides Pentecostal readings of Edwards' theology that contribute to Pentecostal theology and Edwards scholarship. The contributing essays offer examination of affections and the Spirit, God and Salvation, Church and culture; and mission and witness.

Author : Chris Chun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004227842

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The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller by Chris Chun Pdf

This study positions itself in the transatlantic, early modern period between American Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards (1703- 1758) and English Baptist Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), and their attempts to express au fait understanding of reformed soteriologcial ideas in the age of reason.

Author : Stephen R. C. Nichols
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610977678

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Jonathan Edwards's Bible by Stephen R. C. Nichols Pdf

New England colonial pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was well aware of the threat that Deist philosophy posed to the unity of the Bible as Christian Scriptures, yet remarkably, his own theology of the Bible has never before been examined.In the context of his entire corpus this study pays particular attention to the detailed notes Edwards left for "The Harmony of the Old and New Testament," a "great work" hitherto largely ignored by scholars. Following examination of his "Harmony" notes, a case study of salvation in the Old Testament challenges the current "dispositional" account of Edwards's soteriology and argues instead that the colonial Reformed theologian held there to be one object of saving faith in Old and New Testaments, namely, Christ.

Author : Douglas A. Sweeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198035107

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Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards by Douglas A. Sweeney Pdf

Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to be an Edwardsian Calvinist, very few people believed him. This book attempts to understand how Taylor and his associates could have counted themselves Edwardsians. In the process, it explores what it meant to be an Edwardsian minister and intellectual in the 19th century.

Author : Reita Yazawa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643804

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Covenant of Redemption in the Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Reita Yazawa Pdf

Recently, the immanent Trinity (God as in himself) has been criticized as abstract and impractical as opposed to the economic Trinity (God in relation to the world). Many scholars argue that the immanent Trinity is detached from the real life of believers and God's economic work of redemption and thus abstract and impractical. But is this assumption itself really true? What if the blueprint of God's work of redemption is already located in the immanent Trinity as the divine idea? What if Jonathan Edwards, arguably the American greatest theologian, expounds this doctrine as a vital driving force in his theology? Rediscovering the doctrine of the covenant of redemption will help us to see that the immanent Trinity actually is not abstract, but highly practical, simply because the redemption of the believers hinges on the divine plan located there. This study is a fruit of the recent convergence of the resurging doctrine of the Trinity and the renaissance of studies of Jonathan Edwards.

Author : Carol Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317179979

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Approaching Jonathan Edwards by Carol Ball Pdf

Exploring the inner motivations of one of America’s greatest religious thinkers, this book analyses the ways in which Jonathan Edwards' intense personal piety and deep experience of divine sovereignty drove an introverted intellectual along a course that would eventually develop into a mature and respected public intellectual. Throughout his life, the tension between his innately contemplative nature and the active demands of public office was a constant source of internal and public strife for Edwards. Approaching Jonathan Edwards offers a new theoretical approach to the study of Edwards, with an emphasis on his writing activity as the key strategy in shaping his legacy. Tracing Edwards’ strategic self-fashioning of his persona through the many conflicts in which he was engaged, the critical turning points in his life, and his strategies for managing conflicts and crises, Carol Ball concludes that Edwards found his place as a superlative contemplative apologist and theorist of experiential spirituality.