Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780195120097 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Leon Chai

Opis

Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analyzing Edwards' thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. The book comprises three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work of Jonathan Edwards' in which the same issue is explored.

Recenzje

What seems most original is Chai's using Edwards to mount not a celebration but a critique of the Enlightenment - the limits of Enlightenment Philosophy - and thus to call into question what most Americanists take utterly for granted.