Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

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Oxford 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
Bibliography
161
Index
177
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