Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History : : The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment / / Avihu Zakai.

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The American Augustine
  • Edwards’s Life of the Mind
  • One. A Short Intellectual Biography
  • The Soul
  • Two. Young Man Edwards: Religious Conversion and Theologia Gloriae
  • Space
  • Three. Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning: Edwards and the Reenchantment of the World
  • Time
  • Four. The Ideological Origins of Edwards’s Philosophy of History
  • Five. God’s Great Design in History: The Formation of Edwards’s Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought
  • Six. Edwards’s Philosophy of History: The History of the Work of Redemption
  • Seven. “Chariots of Salvation”: The Apocalypse and Eschatology of the Great Awakening
  • Ethics
  • Eight. Edwards and the Enlightenment Debate on Moral Philosophy
  • Epilogue. Edwards and American Protestant Tradition
  • Index