This is a rich volume... Edwards remains a creative conversation partner for present day evangelicals and others.

David Ceri Jones, Journal for the History of Modern Theology 2017 Volume 24 Issue 2.

This book is a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the reception of Edwardsian ideas, dealing more specifically with the ways in which the New England theology flourished, how themes in Edward's philosophy and theology were taken up and changed by representatives of the New England theology, and, not the least, how this school of thought influenced and shaped American Christianity in particular and American intellectual history in general.

Avihu Zakai, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

In recent years there has been a flowering of interest in the work of Jonathan Edwards. In the last decade this has been encouraged by the publication of many previously unavailable manuscripts, in the Yale edition of Edwards' works. In the same period there has been some interest in the New England theology inspired by Edwards' work, which dominated much of American theology in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. However, the interest in New England Theology has been much less pronounced than that expressed in the work of Edwards. This is strange given the influence of New England Theology and the ways in which the theologians of this movement developed and expressed broadly Edwardsian themes. After Jonathan Edwards offers a reassessment of the New England Theology in light of the work of Jonathan Edwards. Scholars who have made important contributions to our understanding of Edwards are brought together with scholars of New England theology and early American history to produce a groundbreaking examination of the ways in which New England Theology flourished, how themes in Edwards' thought were taken up and changed by representatives of the school, and its lasting influence on the shape of American Christianity.
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Abbreviations ; List of Contributors ; Introduction - Oliver D. Crisp and Douglas A. Sweeney ; Part One: New Light in the New World ; Chapter One: Jonathan Edwards, The New Divinity, and Cosmopolitan Calvinism - Mark Valeri ; Chapter Two: Jonathan Edwards on Education and his Educational Legacy - Kenneth P. Minkema ; Chapter Three: After Edwards: Original Sin and Freedom of the Will - Allen Guelzo ; Chapter Four: We Can If We Will: Regeneration and Benevolence - James P. Byrd ; Chapter Five: The Moral Government of God: Jonathan Edwards and Joseph Bellamy on the Atonement - Oliver Crisp ; Chapter Six: A Different Kind of Calvinism?: Edwardseanism Compared with Older Forms of Reformed Thought - Paul Helm ; Part Two: Carrying the Torch ; Chapter Seven: Samuel Hopkins and Hopkinsianism - Peter Jauhiainen ; Chapter Eight: Nathanael Emmons and the Decline of Edwardsean Theology - Gerald R. McDermott ; Chapter Nine: Edwards in the Second Great Awakening: The New Divinity Contributions of Edwards Dorr Griffin and Asahel Nettleton - David W. Kling ; Chapter Ten: Taylorites and Tylerites - Douglas A. Sweeney ; Chapter Eleven: Edwards Amasa Park: The Last Edwardsean - Charles Phillips ; Part Three: Edwardsean Light Refracted ; Chapter Twelve: The New England Theology in New England Congregationalism - Charles Hambrick-Stowe ; Chapter Thirteen: Jonathan Edwards, Edwardsean Theologies, and the Presbyterians - Mark Noll ; Chapter Fourteen: Great Admirers of the Transatlantic Divinity: Some Chapters in the Story of Baptist Edwardseanism - Michael A. G. Haykin ; Chapter Fifteen: "A German Professor Dropping into the American Forests": British, French, and German Views of Jonathan Edwards, 1758-1957 - Michael J. McClymond ; Chapter Sixteen: An Edwardsean Lost and Found: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in Asia - Anri Morimoto ; Chapter Seventeen: Before the Young, Restless, and Reformed: Edwards's Appeal to Post World War II Evangelicals - D. G. Hart ; Postscript - Douglas A. Sweeney and Oliver D. Crisp ; Index
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"This is a rich volume... Edwards remains a creative conversation partner for present day evangelicals and others." -- David Ceri Jones, Journal for the History of Modern Theology 2017 Volume 24 Issue 2. "A rich historical and theological analysis of Edwards s thought...The essays are of a high quality and valuable for the historical insights which they provide into a man whose writings continue to have a profound influence on the study of theology and contemporary ministry."--The Banner of Truth "Crisp and Sweeney have gathered a constellation of essays that guarantees renewed attention to Edwards's legacy. Here we find revaluation and renovation of his immediate disciples, Bellamy and Hopkins, long criticized for turning Edwards's poetry into mere prose yet proving instead the malleability and resilience of his ideas. We move as well through nineteenth-century theologians like Taylor and Park whose own creative renovation of Edwards's ideas speak to their contemporaries' unique moral concerns before and after the Civil War. A late grouping of essays addresses Edwards's continuing appeal to a variety of denominations in the twentieth century as well as to contemporary worldwide evangelism. Never was it more true that Edwards, like Abel, 'though dead, yet speaketh.'"--Philip F. Gura, author of Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical "This is an excellent collection of essays on the emergence of a theological tradition, the diversity found within it, and its continuing vitality. It enriches our understanding of the complexity of this developing tradition in its transmission and reception, its informal networks and institutionalization. The editors, in concluding, advance a bold agenda for further research on the long reach of Jonathan Edwards." --Ecclesiology
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Selling point: A groundbreaking study of a neglected topic. Selling point: Features contributions by an interdisciplinary and international collection of Edwards scholars of note.
Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Douglas A. Sweeney is Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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Selling point: A groundbreaking study of a neglected topic. Selling point: Features contributions by an interdisciplinary and international collection of Edwards scholars of note.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199756308
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Biographical note

Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Douglas A. Sweeney is Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.