Encounters with God An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

by McClymond, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780195118223
• ISBN10: 0195118227
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	xi
INTRODUCTION: Edwards as an "Artful Theologian"	3	(6)
1. APPREHENSION: Spiritual Perception in Jonathan Edwards	9	(18)
2 SPECULATION: The Theocentric Metaphysics of The Mind	27	(10)
3. CONTEMPLATION: The Spirituality of the Personal Narrative and Diary	37	(13)
4. VALUATION: Ethics and Divinity in End of Creation	50	(15)
5. NARRATION: Drama and Discernment in History of Redemption	65	(15)
6. PERSUASION: Edwards as a Christian Apologist	80	(27)
CONCLUSION: The Religious Outlook in Edwards	107	(6)
Notes	113	(48)
Bibliography	161	(16)
Index	177