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Author : Michael E. Zuss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards in the Context of Early Eighteenth Century Moral Philosophy written by Michael E. Zuss and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Fiering
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597526185
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context written by Norman Fiering and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039655
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book One Holy and Happy Society written by Gerald R. McDermott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : HyunKwan Kim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of the Will in Its Eighteenth-century Context written by HyunKwan Kim and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent Jonathan Edwards studies, one can see two conflicting scholarly views on Edwards's Freedom of the Will. Scholars who read Edwards's treatise from the perspective of the seventeenth-century Reformed scholastics tend to consider his position as philosophical determinism that has departed from the Reformed tradition. Scholars who try to understand Edwards's position from the perspective of the nineteenth-century New England Edwardseans try to evaluate Edwards's treatise as providing his followers with an inspirational formula for enlarging human natural ability, transforming the traditional Calvinism to be better fitted for moral reform and revival. Responding to these scholarly assessments, I argue that Edwards's Freedom of the Will is to be read as distinct both from the Reformed scholastic perspective and from the Edwardseans' perspective. Edwards's Freedom of the Will is best understood within the framework of the major Enlightenment philosophies in the eighteenth century. Edwards eclectically incorporated René Descartes's occasionalism, Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation and his atomic theory, John Locke's account of the human mind and its faculties, Thomas Hobbes's causation theory, George Berkeley's idealism, and many other modern thoughts in his formulation of human free will. However, he appropriates those ideas for his own purpose, defending God's absolute sovereignty. However, the seventeenth-century Reformed scholastics' doctrine of free will is marked by its use of the Aristotelian faculty psychology, scholastic modal language, and the Aristotelian-Thomistic account of divine and human causality. The nineteenth-century New England Edwardseans formulated the doctrine of free will with the ideas of God's moral government and the innate moral capacity of human beings. These ideas were supported by the assumptions of the new moral philosophy and of Thomas Reid's Common-Sense Realism. As much as Edwards's Freedom of the Will is the Calvinistic appropriation of the eighteenth-century philosophies, both the early modern Reformed and the New England Edwardseans perspectives are the genuine reflections of the major philosophical ideas of each period in their own Calvinistic way. Reformed theologians in different periods have employed the dominant philosophical ideas of their times to explain the mystery of human freedom under God's absolute sovereignty." -- leaves vi-vii.
Author : John T. Lowe
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647564885
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience, & Thought written by John T. Lowe and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her Epilogue entitled "What Is His Greatness?", Ola Elizabeth Winslow stated in the first serious modern biography of Jonathan Edwards: "In a word, it is the greatness of one who had a determining art of initiating and directing a popular movement of far-reaching consequence, and who in addition, laid the foundations for a new system of religious thought, also of far-reaching consequence." After two and a half centuries since Edwards's death, Winslow's statement is undoubtedly true, and perhaps, more so now than ever. The recovery of Edwards pioneered by Perry Miller, Ola Winslow, and Thomas Schafer, among others, has become what is often referred to as an "Edwards renaissance," and has been made even more popular among lay people by John Piper, Stephen Nichols, and the like. Since the free online access of The Works of Jonathan Edwards by Yale University, dozens of books, and articles, as well as numerous dissertations, each year are written to seek a facet of Edwards's "greatness," and thus as an exemplar of his continued "far-reaching consequence." Jonathan Edwards, more than any other pre-revolutionary colonial thinker, grappled with the promises and perils of the Enlightenment. Organized by John T. Lowe and Daniel N. Gullotta, Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment brings together a group of young and early career scholars to present their propping the life, times, and theology of one of America's greatest minds. Many of these subjects have been seldom explored by scholars while others offer new and exciting avenues into well covered territory. Some of these topics include Edwards' interaction with and involvement in slavery, colonialism, racism, as well as musings on gender, populism, violence, pain, and witchcraft.
Author : Miklos Veto
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498226248
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Thought of Jonathan Edwards written by Miklos Veto and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards is the greatest theologian of colonial America as well as its first important philosopher. As a theologian, he represents without any concession Calvinistic Orthodoxy, re-thought and re-lived through the experience of the Great Awakening. The large majority of his writings are of a theological character, yet this theology is articulated and expressed through a systematic philosophical reflection. Edwardsian thought covers three major areas: First, being, grace, and glory; then, the doctrine of the will extending to the study of the original sin and evil; finally, an entirely original theory of knowledge synthesizing spirituality, aesthetics, and epistemology. The present book, the first edition of which appeared in French almost thirty years ago, is a uniquely comprehensive study of the work of Jonathan Edwards. It discusses all the aspects of his thought over against the background of classical Protestant theology and of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western philosophy. Our time witnesses a significant renewal of interest in Jonathan Edwards. Professor Veto’s book should prove to be a major contribution to assist and to guide the readers of “America’s Theologian.”
Author : Eleanor Wiles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book "The Fountain Whence All Virtue" written by Eleanor Wiles and published by . This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. McClymond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353439
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Encounters with God written by Michael J. McClymond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.
Author : M.X. Lesser
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802862438
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Reading Jonathan Edwards written by M.X. Lesser and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen J. Stein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114594
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards's Writings written by Stephen J. Stein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Nathan O. Hatch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363000
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience written by Nathan O. Hatch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691144303
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History written by Avihu Zakai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357176
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Edwards on the Will written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries--a man over six feet tall and a figure of theological stature--but the reasons for his power have been a matter of dispute. Edwards on the Will offers a persuasive explanation. In 1753, after seven years of personal trials, which included dismissal from his Northampton church, Edwards submitted a treatise, Freedom of the Will, to Boston publishers. Its impact on Puritan society was profound. He had refused to be trapped either by a new Arminian scheme that seemed to make God impotent or by a Hobbesian natural determinism that made morality an illusion. He both reasserted the primacy of God's will and sought to reconcile freedom with necessity. In the process he shifted the focus from the community of duty to the freedom of the individual. Edwards died of smallpox in 1758 soon after becoming president of Princeton; as one obituary said, he was "a most rational . . . and exemplary Christian." Thereafter, for a century or more, all discussion of free will and on the church as an enclave of the pure in an impure society had to begin with Edwards. His disciples, the "New Divinity" men--principally Samuel Hopkins of Great Barrington and Joseph Bellamy of Bethlehem, Connecticut--set out to defend his thought. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, tried to keep his influence off the Yale Corporation, but Edwards's ideas spread beyond New Haven and sparked the religious revivals of the next decades. In the end, old Calvinism returned to Yale in the form of Nathaniel William Taylor, the Boston Unitarians captured Harvard, and Edwards's troublesome ghost was laid to rest. The debate on human freedom versus necessity continued, but theologians no longer controlled it. In Edwards on the Will, Guelzo presents with clarity and force the story of these fascinating maneuverings for the soul of New England and of the emerging nation.
Author : David William Kling
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035197
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad written by David William Kling and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contribution to the study of one of America's best-known and most-imposing religious figures, 15 scholars offer a sustained analysis of Jonathan Edward's historical legacy throughout the world. The volume looks at Edward's lasting influence and enduring effects worldwide.
Author : Anri Morimoto
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271014531
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation written by Anri Morimoto and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards (1703&–1758) has been acclaimed as the quintessential puritan of eighteenth-century America who defined not only what Puritanism was, but also what American Christianity would become. Anri Morimoto finds that Edwards's theology, once regarded as disarrayed, precarious, and dangerously unorthodox, is in fact consistent and integral to his general ontology and natural philosophy. By presenting Edwards's vision of salvation as a dynamic process of sharing God's excellence and holiness, Morimoto presents a new paradigm that is radically inclusive, yet theologically responsible. By discussing Edwards in relation to Roman Catholic traditions, Morimoto places him in the context of a broader Christian tradition rather than that of New England Puritanism. Morimoto argues that this view of salvation was not new to the Protestant tradition&—in fact, this view was present in Luther, Calvin, and much of the Reformed tradition&—but Edwards accented it more clearly and emphatically than anyone else. Morimoto concludes that one does not have to surrender or compromise one's theology to promote ecumenical harmony. This study will be of interest to scholars, teachers and students of theology and religion, church leaders and lay persons of all denominations, evangelical or liberal, and especially those interested in Edwards, Puritanism, and early American intellectual history.
Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300022827
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 6 written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1980-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146744944X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards written by Oliver D. Crisp and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student-friendly intro to one of America’s most fascinating theological minds Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) has long been recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in the early Enlightenment and a major figure in the history of American Christianity. In this accessible one-volume text, leading Edwards experts Oliver Crisp and Kyle Strobel introduce readers to the fascinating and formidable mind of Jonathan Edwards as they survey key theological and philosophical themes in his thought, including his doctrine of the Trinity, his philosophical theology of God and creation, and his understanding of the atonement and salvation. More than two centuries after his death, theologians and historians alike are finding the larger-than-life Edwards more interesting than ever. Crisp and Strobel’s concise yet comprehensive guide will help students of this influential eighteenth-century revivalist preacher to understand why.
