Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths

Name: Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths
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ISBN: 9780195132748

ISBN-10: 0195132742

ISBN-13: 9780195132748

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gerald R. McDermott

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It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism -- a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism -- the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction A Strange, New Edwards



Deists and the Scandal of Particularity



Edwards S War Against Enlightenment Religion



Strategies of Response



Our Noblest Faculty



Signatures of Divine Majesty



Trickle-Down Revelation and Religious Entropy



Parables in All Nations Typology and the Religions



A Possibility of Reconciliation



Strategies Applied



Judaism



Islam



Greece and Rome



American Indians



The Chinese Philosophers


Conclusion: Confounding the Enfightemnent


Selected Bibliography


Index