Theism in the Discourse of Jonathan EdwardsUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - 292 pages This book proposes that a new semiotic category called theism can more intelligibly classify the discursive pattern that precedes modern humanism in American literature than such standard historicist categories as Puritanism or Calvinism or medievalism, and that the writings of Jonathan Edwards exemplify this theist discursive pattern. |
Contents
The Phenomenon of Jonathan Edwards | 9 |
Creation | 57 |
Providence | 102 |
Copyright | |
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