By George M. Marsden, Kenneth P. Minkema, David D. Hall, Avihu Zakai, Wilson H. Kimnach, Harry S. Stout, E. Brooks Holifield, Stephen H. Daniel, Rachel M. Wheeler, Stephen J. Stein
Lengthy famous as 'America's theologian', Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is obvious as instrumental within the nice Awakening of the 1740s that gripped a lot of latest England and that laid the basis for an American Protestant non secular id. This Cambridge better half bargains a normal, complete advent to Jonathan Edwards and examines his existence and works from quite a few disciplinary views together with historical past, literature, theology, spiritual experiences, and philosophy. The booklet includes seventeen chapters written through top spiritual students, historians and literary critics on Edwards' existence, paintings, and legacy. The better half may be a useful reduction to lecturers and students and should be imminently available to these simply encountering Edwards for the 1st time.
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5. E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 102. 6. Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2004), 115. 7. WJE, 22:400–35. 8. edu. 9. com. 10. com, where David Bruce Sonner reads Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. 11. html. 12. html. 13. htm. 14. html. xml CUNY534-Stein 0 521 84464 9 September 29, 2006 17:41 1 Biography george m.
Stein attention among these groups. Out of this mixed cultural context emerged Perry Miller, who played a key role in the recovery of Edwards and in the growth of the modern scholarly Edwards enterprise. The final chapter in this Companion carries the issue of Edwards’s legacy and reputation into an area where there has been more modest scholarly investment, at best, until relatively recently, namely, his engagement with and views on a variety of social issues. The editor of one of the volumes of Edwards’s “Miscellanies” and the author of several seminal essays dealing with Edwards’s social views, Ava Chamberlain in her chapter describes and evaluates his judgments on age and class, gender and sexuality, and race and slavery.
Having felt the power of the objections that the new liberal Christian thought of the early British Enlightenment posed for Calvinist affirmations concerning God’s sovereignty, one of his major goals was to show how the old Calvinist faith in which he had been reared could answer the often-skeptical challenges of the Enlightenment. These ideas, which he developed with remarkable philosophical sophistication in private notebooks, became the framework for his thought throughout his life. To put the matter most simply, Edwards countered the intellectual trends of his day by emphasizing that human understanding of everything must start with the God of Christianity.
