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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"This well-documented and clearly written book is proof that Jonathan Edwards's image continues to be transformed by the study of the unpublished texts in the Beinecke Library in Yale University. Even readers who are acquainted with Edwards's better-known writings will find McDermott's book a journey into terra incognita, or toward "a strange, new Edwards" (pp. 3-13) He conclusively demonstrates that Edwards devoted his final years to developing what today would be called a theology of world religions." --Journal of Religion
"This surprising and stimulating study comprises three parts and a conclusion." Anglican Theological Review.
"It is testimony to both Gerald R. McDermott's talent as a scholar and to Jonathan Edward's own genius that this new volume succeeds in exploring a virtually unknown and fascinating aspect of the thought of perhaps the most carefully scrutinized theologian in U.S. religious history."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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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.
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- A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards by John Piper on page 47, page 176, and page 200
- The Protestant Interest: New England After Puritanism by Professor Thomas S. Kidd in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Emory Elliott in Back Matter
- The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (Early American Studies) by Laura M. Stevens in Back Matter
- The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospel by Jonathan Edwards by Richard A. Bailey on page 154
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