Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan EdwardsOxford University Press, 1998 M08 20 - 208 pages 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. |
Contents
Edwards as an Artful Theologian | 3 |
Spiritual Perception in Jonathan Edwards | 9 |
The Theocentric Metaphysics of The Mind | 27 |
The Spirituality of the Personal Narrative and Diary | 37 |
Ethics and Divinity in End of Creation | 50 |
Drama and Discernment in History of Redemption | 65 |
Edwards as a Christian Apologist | 80 |
The Religious Outlook in Edwards | 107 |
Notes | 113 |
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| Title | Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards Religion in America |
| Author | Michael J. McClymond |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0195353439, 9780195353433 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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