Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Title | Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Robert McDermott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Apologetics |
ISBN | 0195132742 |
It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguements were aimed against Arminianism -- a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism -- the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.
Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Title | Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald R. McDermott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2000-05-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195351002 |
This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was unparalleled in the eighteenth century and surprisingly generous toward non-Christian traditions.
Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Title | Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Robert McDermott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Apologetics |
ISBN | 9780197739792 |
Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Reality
Title | Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Bombaro |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 500 |
Release | 2011-10-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 163087812X |
Since the publication of Sang Hyun Lee's revolutionary commentary, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, scholars have considered the possibilities of understanding Jonathan Edwards's thought in terms of dispositional laws, forces, and habits. While some scholars reject the notion of a dispositional ontology in Edwards, others have taken the concept of disposition in his thought beyond the usage the Northampton minister ever indicated, especially with respect to soteriological considerations. The preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is made to be an inclusivist, if not a crypto-universalist. Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality substantiates that Edwards, in an effort to combat deistic and materialistic Enlightenment paradigms, employs dispositions in his philosophy, but that his radical theocentrism and Calvinistic particularism established its boundaries within his apologetical reconsideration of spatiotemporal and metaphysical reality. Within his "spiritual vision" of reality, Edwards leaves no stone unturned: history and even the reprobate find inherent value and a positive functional role not only in God's program of self-glorification but as manifestations of divine being--the damned are "deformities" in God. The logic of Edwards's theocentric vision of reality pushes his ideas to the limits of acceptable Reformed orthodoxy, and sometimes beyond those limits.
The Works of Jonathan Edwards
Title | The Works of Jonathan Edwards PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Edwards |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1274 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Congregational churches |
ISBN |
God's Rivals
Title | God's Rivals PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald R. McDermott |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2009-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830875360 |
Gerald R. McDermott explores the question, "Why are there other religions?" He looks at teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question.
Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad
Title | Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | David William Kling |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781570035197 |
In this contribution to the study of one of America's best-known and most-imposing religious figures, 15 scholars offer a sustained analysis of Jonathan Edward's historical legacy throughout the world. The volume looks at Edward's lasting influence and enduring effects worldwide.