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Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment

Title: Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment / edited with an introduction by John Opie.
Publication: Lexington, Mass. : Heath, [1969]

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Additional Authors

Opie, John, 1934-

Description

xiv, 113 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Problems in American civilization

Uniform Title

Problems in American civilization

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

I. The influence of John Locke upon Edwards. New theory of knowledge / John Locke. -- Young follower of Locke / Jonathan Edwards. -- Free will a mistaken belief / John Locke. -- Free will is not logical, moral or true / Jonathan Edwards. -- II. A modern historian's reappraisal and his critic. Jonathan Edwards: the first modern American / Perry Miller. -- Edwards' master was the Bible, not Locke / Vincent Tomas. -- III. Edwards the scientist. Conclusions on rays and colors / Jonathan Edwards. -- Science in the interests of religion / Clarence H. Faust. -- Edwards a disciple of Newton / Theodore Hornberger. -- IV. Jonathan Edwards as a critic of the enlightenment. Original sin is an immoral and unreasonable doctrine / John Taylor. -- Attack against Taylor's view of original sin / Jonathan Edwards. -- Morality means seeking the general good / Francis Hutcheson. -- Morality depends upon benevolence to God / Jonathan Edwards. -- Philosophical defense of revivalism / Jonathan Edwards.
V. The continuing controversy over the significance of Edwards. Jonathan Edwards was an anachronism / Vernon L. Parrington. -- The tragedy of Jonathan Edwards / Ola E. Winslow. -- The obsolete Puritanism of Jonathan Edwards / Peter Gay. -- Edwards neither medieval nor modern / Conrad Cherry.

LCCN

70079287

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Princeton University Library