The Philosophy Of Jonathan Edwards

Author : Sang Hyun Lee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Ray S. Yeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317066217

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Renewing Spiritual Perception with Jonathan Edwards by Ray S. Yeo Pdf

Jonathan Edwards’ theologically sophisticated psychology of grace remains one of the deepest and most fertile theological psychologies in the Protestant tradition. The heart of his account lies in his foundational doctrine of spiritual perception where he locates the psychological core of the engraced Christian life. This work revisits Edwards’ doctrine from the perspective of recent work in the philosophy of emotions and other related philosophical sub-disciplines. The aim is to recover this often neglected theme in contemporary theology and renew it by bringing Edwards’ theological insights into conversation with various spheres of contemporary philosophical discussion. The account of spiritual perception that emerges from this interdisciplinary dialogue is one that seeks to revise, update and deepen Edwards’ own thinking on the matter in five major ways. The book concludes by arguing that the capacity for spiritual and emotional perception of the supreme good is grounded upon a wisdom-like seminal virtue centred upon the incarnate Christ (i.e., Christocentric wisdom). Such wisdom, on the renewed account, is considered the psychological core of transforming grace and the foundational basis upon which all other Christian virtues are formed.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4D1V

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Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271039657

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One Holy and Happy Society by Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

Jonathan Edwards (1703&–58) was arguably this country's greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the &"New Divinity&") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America. Hence any study of religion and politics in early America must take account of this theologian and his legacy. Yet historians still regard Edward's social theory as either nonexistent or underdeveloped. Gerald McDermott demonstrates, to the contrary, that Edwards was very interested in the social and political affairs of his day, and commented upon them at length in his unpublished sermons and private notebooks. McDermott shows that Edwards thought deeply about New England's status under God, America's role in the millennium, the nature and usefulness of patriotism, the duties of a good magistrate, and what it means to be a good citizen. In fact, his sociopolitical theory was at least as fully developed as that of his better-known contemporaries and more progressive in its attitude toward citizens' rights. Using unpublished manuscripts that have previously been largely ignored, McDermott also convincingly challenges generations of scholarly opinion about Edwards. The Edwards who emerges from this nook is both less provincial and more this-worldly than the persona he is commonly given.

Author : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Bertram Emil Jessup,Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : LCCN:43053298

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The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards from His Private Notebooks by Bertram Emil Jessup,Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:11575511

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The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Douglas J. Elwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Philosophical theology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010248313

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The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Douglas J. Elwood Pdf

Author : Bertram Emil Jessup,Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : LCCN:55063038

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The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards from His Private Notebooks by Bertram Emil Jessup,Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.

Author : Jonathan Edwards,Harvey Gates Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631665398

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The philosophy of Jonathan Edwards from his private notebooks by Jonathan Edwards,Harvey Gates Townsend Pdf

Author : Peter B. Jung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532661426

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Free Will by Peter B. Jung Pdf

Free Will, also known as Freedom of the Will, is appraised as the one of the greatest works ever produced in America. The mid-eighteenth-century New England philosophical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) defines the will by importing terms from John Locke. Edwards states the Arminian nature of free will, suspects the need for such free will, and finally defends Calvinist free will and objects to the Arminian one. In his argument, he chooses three British antagonists: Daniel Whitby, Thomas Chubb, and Isaac Watts. These antagonists insist that the self-determining will is necessary for us to be morally accountable. Edwards disputes their objections that God's determination is contradictory to the liberty of the human will. He then goes to argue what kind of freedom of the will is necessary for the former and latter to be compatible. Edwards's psychological, moral, and theological philosophy is displayed. In addition, readers can learn how our will chooses something pleasant by following the dictate of understanding, while the author demonstrates the natures of New England Arminianism and Calvinism.

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.