America's theologian : a recommendation of Jonathan Edwards / Robert W. Jenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenson, Robert W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Congregationalists--United States--Biography.

Congregationalists.

Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.

Edwards, Jonathan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author argues that Edwards was very much a figure of the Enlightenment, but was able to use Enlightenment thought in his theology without yielding to its mechanistic and individualistic tendencies.

Contents:

Contents; 1 America and Enlightenment; I: THE FOUNDING INTUITION; 2 Beauty and Reason; 3 God Against the Machine; 4 The Melody of History; II: THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGION; 5 Justification by Faith; 6 The Phenomenology of Religious Consciousness; 7 Love of Self and Love of God; III: GOD AND CREATION; 8 The Triune God; 9 The Offense of God's Actuality; 10 Christ; 11 Nature and Supernature; IV: COMMUNITY; 12 Community and Personhood; 13 Community and Freedom; 14 True Virtue; 15 The End; 16 Recovery of the Word; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. 197-218 and index.

ISBN:

1-280-52340-9

0-19-536424-4

1-4294-0096-X

OCLC:

191924795