Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths
1st Edition
Published on 11. May 2000
258 pages
978-0-19-535100-2 (ISBN)
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This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was unparalleled in the eighteenth century and surprisingly generous toward non-Christian traditions.
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Gerald R. McDermott
Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths
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05/2000
Oxford University Press Inc
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Gerald R. McDermott is the Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Strange, New Edwards
- Part I: The Challenge
- 1. Deists and the Scandal of Particularity
- 2. Edwards's War against Enlightenment Religion
- Part II: Strategies of Response
- 3. Our Noblest Faculty: The Promise and Limits of Reason in Religion
- 4. Signatures of Divine Majesty: The Reason and Mystery of Revelation
- 5. Trickle-Down Revelation and Religious Entropy: The Nature and History of Religion
- 6. Parables in All Nations: Typology and the Religions
- 7. A Possibility of Reconciliation: Salvation and the "Heathen
- Part III: Strategies Applied
- 8. Judaism: A Light among the Nations
- 9. Islam: The Left Arm of Antichrist
- 10. Greece and Rome: Very Noble and Almost Divine Truths
- 11. American Indians: The Devil Sucks Their Blood
- 12. The Chinese Philosophers: Shadows of the Trinity
- Conclusion: Confounding the Enlightenment
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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