Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780253330826 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str.

Stephen J. Stein

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"This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." --Religious Studies Review..". gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." --Choice..". this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." --Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesHere is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts--Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue--as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons.