Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0253330823 ISBN 13 : 9780253330826

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 1996

Synopsis

"This book will take its place in libraries next to the finest works abou;this creative thinker." --Religious Studies Review

". . . gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." --Choice

" . . . this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts." --Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Here is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts--Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue--as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

STEPHEN J. STEIN (1940-2022) was Chancellors' Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a member of the Editorial Board of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, editor of volume 5 in that edition (Apocalyptic Writings) and author of The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers, which was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize in 1994 by the American Society of Church History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253330823
• ISBN 13: 9780253330826
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Stein Stephen J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible