A Great and Remarkable Analogy : : The Onto-Typology of Jonathan Edwards.

A Great and Remarkable Analogy : : The Onto-Typology of Jonathan Edwards.

"Jonathan Edwards proposed that types in nature are a communication of God, pointing to the antitypes of divine truths. These types are shown to exist all the way down to the cellular and molecular levels of nature. In this way, nature is the triune God communicating the divine Self to the belo...

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Superior document:New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies ; v.5
:
Winslow, Lisanne.
TeilnehmendeR:
Stout, Harry S.
Minkema, Kenneth P.
Neele, Adriaan C.
Place / Publishing House:Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2020.
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:German
Series:New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (172 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Body
  • Tables, Graphs and Figures
  • Works of Jonathan Edwards Cited from the Yale Editions
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Book Summary
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Edwards as a Natural Theologian
  • Chapter Two. Emanation of the Knowledge and Glory of God into the Creation in Dissertation I: Concerning the End for Which God Created the World
  • Chapter Three. Edwards' Creation Metaphysics Undergirds Natural Typology: Idealism, Panentheism, Occasionalism, and Continuous Creationism
  • Chapter Four. All Natural Types and Antitypes are Ontologically Real: Introducing Edwards' Onto-Typology
  • Chapter Five. The Language of Nature Explored as Analogical
  • Chapter Six. A Method for Discerning Natural Onto-Types as the Analogical Language of Nature
  • Chapter Seven. Setting It Straight with Terms: Type, Antitype, Analogy, Trope, Emblem, Symbol, Copy, Ectype, Archetype
  • Chapter Eight. Jonathan Edwards' Consistent Use of Onto-Typology in the "Miscellanies", Sermons, Treatises, and Discourses
  • Chapter Nine. Onto-Types in Images of Divine Things
  • Chapter Ten. Extending Edwards' Onto-Typology into Contemporary Science: Rhodopson Mechanism in the Mammalian Visual System as a Molecular Onto-Type
  • A Mechanism from Cell Biology: The Rhodopsin Second Messenger Cascade in the Mammalian Visual System is a Natural Type of Illumination by the Light of Christ
  • Biological Background: The Mechanism of Mammalian Vision
  • Light
  • Rhodopsin
  • G-protein
  • γPDE Inhibitors and PDE
  • cGMP to Linear GMP
  • Na+/ Ca2+ Gated Ion Channels
  • Depolarization and Hyperpolarization of the Rod Cell Membrane Resulting in Transduction of Visual Signal to the Brain
  • Chapter Eleven. Beauty in the Clouds: Nature's Secondary Beauty as an Onto-Type of God's Primary Beauty.
  • Chapter Twelve. Bringing Forth Edwards' Typological Natural Philosophy toward a Trinitarian Theology of Nature
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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