Jonathan Edwards S Philosophy Of Nature

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567070951

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature by Avihu Zakai Pdf

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Natural theology
ISBN : 1472551230

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Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of Nature by Avihu Zakai Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606084472

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The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Originally published posthumously in 1955, Harvey G. Townsend's Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards reprinted some of Edwards' most important early compositions on natural philosophy, Of Being and The Mind, and collected nearly two hundred Miscellanies entries, some of them published here for the first time. In his introduction, Townsend points to Edwards' radical idealism that derived from Christian Platonism and John Locke rather than George Berkeley, as commonly thought. Townsend's work represents an important sourcebook for Edwards' writings, and his introduction presents a clear picture of mainstream Edwards scholarship at the middle of the twentieth century.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400825608

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History by Avihu Zakai Pdf

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time and the meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration, Zakai considers Edwards's historical thought as a reaction, in part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and their growing disregard for theistic considerations. Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards's insistence that the process of history depends solely on God's redemptive activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout history, reading this doctrine as an answer to the threat posed to the Christian theological teleology of history by the early modern emergence of a secular conception of history and the modern legitimation of historical time. In response to the Enlightenment refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God's preeminence within the order of time. Against the de-Christianization of history and removal of divine power from the historical process, he sought to re-enthrone God as the author and lord of history--and thus to re-enchant the historical world. Placing Edwards's historical thought in its broadest context, this book will be welcomed by those who study early modern history, American history, or religious culture and experience in America.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567226501

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature by Avihu Zakai Pdf

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Author : Clyde A. Holbrook
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838751172

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Jonathan Edwards, the Valley and Nature by Clyde A. Holbrook Pdf

The natural surroundings of the Connecticut Valley were clearly a source of Jonathan Edwards's philosophical idealism. This essay traces and interprets his conceptions of the natural world, the development of his philosophical idealism, and the religious symbolism which he applied to nature and biblical events.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725208575

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The Nature of True Virtue by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

A major work in moral philosophy by the Puritan who was the most modern man of his age. Edwards at his very greatest . . . he speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him. Perry Miller, 'Jonathan Edwards' Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as true virtue is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hellfire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691144306

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History by Avihu Zakai Pdf

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time and the meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration, Zakai considers Edwards's historical thought as a reaction, in part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and their growing disregard for theistic considerations. Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards's insistence that the process of history depends solely on God's redemptive activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout history, reading this doctrine as an answer to the threat posed to the Christian theological teleology of history by the early modern emergence of a secular conception of history and the modern legitimation of historical time. In response to the Enlightenment refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God's preeminence within the order of time. Against the de-Christianization of history and removal of divine power from the historical process, he sought to re-enthrone God as the author and lord of history--and thus to re-enchant the historical world. Placing Edwards's historical thought in its broadest context, this book will be welcomed by those who study early modern history, American history, or religious culture and experience in America.

Author : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351924887

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Jonathan Edwards and the Metaphysics of Sin by Oliver D. Crisp Pdf

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely regarded as America's greatest philosopher-theologian. In the last half century there has been a resurgence of interest in Edwards' work from historians, theologians and philosophers, aided by the publication of the Yale edition of Edwards' Works. Edwards' thinking on sin has long been a mystery to scholars trying to fit his thought into the traditional categories of Reformed theology. What this study shows is that Edwards' theory of sin was an original contribution to philosophical theology, which can only be understood when read on its own terms as a philosophical theory about the nature of sin, its origin and transmission. This constitutes a substantial contribution to the literature on Edwards and, more broadly, to philosophical theology in general.

Author : Sang Hyun Lee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691049424

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The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Sang Hyun Lee Pdf

This book demonstrates the originality and coherence of Jonathan Edwards' philosophical theology using his dynamic reconception of reality as the interpretive key. The author argues that what underlies Edwards' writings is a radical shift from the traditional Western metaphysics of substance and form to a new conception of the world as a network of dispositions: active and abiding principles that possess reality apart from their manifestations in actions and events. Edwards' dispositional ontology enables him to restate the Augustinian-Calvinist tradition in theology in a strikingly modern philosophical framework. A prime example of Edwards' innovative reconstruction in philosophical theology is his conception of God as both eternal actuality and a disposition to repeat that actuality within God and also through creation. This view is a compelling alternative to the traditional Western doctrine of God as changeless actuality, on the one hand, and the recent process theologians' excessive stress on God's involvement in change, on the other. Edwards' achievement was that he saw dynamic movement as essential to God's own life without compromising the traditional Christian tenets of God's prior actuality and transcendence. The author of this volume also explicates the way in which Edwards' dynamic reconception of reality informs his theories of imagination, aesthetic perception, the knowledge of God, and the meaning of history. This expanded edition includes a new preface and a new appendix titled "Jonathan Edwards on Nature."

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Analogy (Religion)
ISBN : OCLC:933053750

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Images Or Shadows of Divine Things by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351777308

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Jonathan Edwards by Oliver D. Crisp Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. It has often been claimed that Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was America's greatest philosopher and theologian. From literary criticism of his sermons to philosophical assessments of his metaphysics, there has been a burgeoning industry in Edwardsian studies, but there has been no one place where an exploration of the theology and philosophy of Edwards has been brought together. 2003 marks the tercentenary date of the birth of Jonathan Edwards. This book draws together specially-commissioned contributions from philosophers and theologians from the USA and UK, to present new analytic philosophical and theological thinking on Edwards in a way that reflects Edwards' own concerns, as well as those current in the academy.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592443673

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The Nature of True Virtue by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

A major work in moral philosophy by the Puritan who was the most modern man of his age. "Edwards at his very greatest . . . he speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him." Perry Miller, 'Jonathan Edwards' Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as "true virtue" is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hellfire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300022824

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 6 by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

This volume contains two major manuscript notebooks of Jonathan Edwards--"Natural Philosophy" and "The Mind"--as well as a number of shorter manuscript writings connected with his scientific interests and philosophical development. Several of the shorter papers have not previously been published, notably Edwards' letter on the "flying" spider (hither known only in a draft version), an essay on light rays, and a brief but important set of philosophical notes written near the end of his life. Wherever possible the works have been newly transcribed from manuscript originals. Wallace Anderson has collected, edited, and presented them here in a thoroughly authentic and readable text. Each of the major works in this volume and each group of related writings are preceded by detailed discussion of manuscript sources and dates. In his introduction Anderson makes these the basis for a revised account of the chronology of Edwards' early writings and a deeper investigation of their biographical and historical context. Also included in the introduction are a new appraisal of Edwards' efforts and achievements in science and an analysis of the developmental of his philosophical views. Anderson concludes from his research that Edwards was an enthusiastic, though untrained, investigator in the Newtonian tradition and that he grappled with the major metaphysical problems raised by this tradition. The papers reveal with special clarity the fertile and inquiring mind of our leading eighteenth-century philosopher-theologian. Wallace E. Anderson is associate professor of philosophy at Ohio State University.

Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195353112

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Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy by Leon Chai Pdf

Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analyzing Edwards' thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. The book comprises three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work of Jonathan Edwards' in which the same issue is explored.