Jonathan Edwards's [i.e. Edwards'] vision of reality : the relationship of God to the world, redemption history, and the reprobate / John J. Bombaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bombaro, John J.

Series:

Princeton theological monograph series ; 172.

Princeton theological monograph series ; 172

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.

Edwards, Jonathan.

Theology, Doctrinal--History--18th century.

Theology, Doctrinal.

History.

Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History--18th century.

Puritans--Doctrines.

Puritans.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 327 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2012]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Jonathan Edwards's spiritual vision of reality

A personal narrative of the vision of God

Comprehensive theocentrivity

The formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part I)

Divine comprehensiveness and Edwardsian panentheism : the formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part II)

The becomingness of God : the formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part III)

The application of Jonathan Edwards's dispositional concepts

The beauty of being : an aesthetic ontology of human being

Re-conceiving human being

God glorified in man's existence

The first sin

Jonathan Edwards's vision of salvation

Dispositional pecularity, history and Edwards's evangelistic appeal to self-love.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317) and indexes.

ISBN:

1610974565

9781610974561

OCLC:

760990534

Publisher Number:

99946280394