Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

F. Ungar Publishing Company, 1970 - 188 من الصفحات

Texts from the autobiography of this controversial eighteenth-century theologian with seven of his sermons. Each represents a pivotal point or a crisis in Edwards's career. Taken together they illustrate his revival of Calvinism when many of the clergymen of his day were preaching a much laxer form of religion. Three of his main philosophical works are also excerpted.

المحتوى

• Personal Narrative: 27
• God Glorified in Mans Dependence: 45
• A Divine and Supernatural Light: 65

نبذة عن المؤلف

In 1716 Edwards was admitted to Yale at the remarkable age of thirteen. After he graduated in 1722, he spent four years there pursuing theological interests, teaching, and completing his master's degree. In 1727,Edwards complied with his grandfather's request and traveled to Northhampton, Massachusetts to be his assistant in his church. A committed scholar of John Calvin and the early Puritan theologians, as well as of the writings of John Locke and Isaac Newton, Edwards pursued a theology founded on two seemingly contradictory themes---a desire to return to the Calvinist tradition, as well as a desire to include the insights of contemporary Enlightenment philosophy. While Edwards's theological formulations were not completely developed until the 1750s, his lifetime pursuit of these ideas profoundly influenced the Puritan period of religious revival known as the Great Awakening. Though Edwards's provocative theology and sermons occasionally invoked fire and brimstone, as in the famous Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741), his sermons generally moved parishioners to faith through the employment of positive imagery, as in God Glorified in Man's Dependence (1731). In spite of his successes during the Great Awakening, Edwards was ultimately involved in a controversy that led to his dismissal at the Northhampton parish in 1750. Viewed as too progressive by a faction of the church known as the Old Lights, Edwards stepped down after delivering his famous Farewell Sermon (1750), in which he declared that God would ultimately determine whether Edwards had been right or wrong

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards; Milestones of thought in the history of ideas; Milestones of thought
• المؤلف: Jonathan Edwards
• الناشر: F. Ungar Publishing Company, 1970
• أصلي من: جامعة ميتشيغان
• الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي: 15 تموز (يوليو) 2009
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 0804461325, 9780804461320
• عدد الصفحات: 188 من الصفحات