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The contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American culture and society : essays on America's spiritual founding father (the Northampton tercentenary celebration, 1703-2003) / edited by Richard A.S. Hall.
LIBRA BX7260.E3 C645 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758--Influence.
- Edwards, Jonathan.
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- The historical background to the Edwards tercentenary / Richard A. S. Hall
- Banquet address : J. Edwards conference / Huston Smith
- Part II: Edwards as social & political philosopher
- Why is Jonathan Edwards America's spiritual founding father? / Herbert Richardson
- The mind of Jonathan Edwards : beyond America / M. Darrol Bryant
- One vast and ecumenical holding company : Edwardsean millennial themes in nineteenth-and twentieth-century dystopian fiction / James Hewitson
- Part III: Edwards as interpreter of nature
- Edwards, Swedenborg, Emerson : from typology to correspondence / Devin P. Zuber
- From Edwards to Emerson to Eddy : extending a trajectory of metaphysical idealism / David L. Weddle
- Edwards, Thoreau, Dillard : reading/writing nature and the awakened/awakening self / Michael G. Ditmore
- Part IV: Edwards & American philosophy
- Experience as religious discovery in Edwards & Peirce / Roger Ward
- Jonathan Edwards as proto-pragmatist and John Dewey as post-theological Calvinist / Stuart Rosenbaum
- Part V: Edwards in his context
- Bishop Butler and Jonathan Edwards / David White
- Doing metaethics with Kant and Edwards / Charles Don Keyes
- Part VI: Edwards & theology
- Satan and his maleficium in the thought of Jonathan Edwards / Scott D. Seay
- Jonathan Edwards' trinitarian theology in the context of the early Enlightenment deist controversy / Steve Studebaker
- Part VII: Miscellaneous themes in Edwards
- Jonathan Edwards, children, and young people : less of earth and more of heaven / Charles Pierce
- Edwards contribution to the missionary movement of early Baptists / Michael D. Thompson
- Edwards as mystic / Richard A.S. Hall
- Heaven is a world of love / Ronald Story.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780773450608
- 0773450602
- OCLC:
- 260231125
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