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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Use in library | B873 .O654 1969 | Off-site |
Details
- 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)
- Bibliography: p. [111]-113.
- 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
- OCLC
- ocm00078248
- 78248
- SCSB-186118
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library