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Author Jenson, Robert W

Title America's theologian : a recommendation of Jonathan Edwards / Robert W. Jenson
Published New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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
Analysis United States Congregational churches Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index
Notes English
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Subject Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
SUBJECT Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 fast
Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 gnd
Edwards, Jonathan (Theologe, 1703-1758) swd
Subject Congregationalists -- United States -- Biography
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
Congregationalists
Theologen.
Theologie.
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 87014037
ISBN 0195049411
9780195049411
142940096X
9781429400961
0195364244
9780195364248
1280523409
9781280523403