Southern Edwardseans : : the Southern Baptist legacy of Jonathan Edwards / / Obbie Tyler Todd.

• Superior document: New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies ; Volume 8
• VerfasserIn: Todd, Obbie Tyler,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: New directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

"The founders and forerunners of the Southern Baptist Convention were fundamentally shaped by the thought of Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards and his theological successors. While Baptists in the antebellum South boasted a different theological pedigree than Presbyterians or Congregationalists, and while they inhabited a Southern landscape unfamiliar to the bustling cities and tall forests of New England, they believed their similarities with Edwards far outweighed their differences. Like Edwards, these Baptists were revivalistic, Calvinistic, loosely confessional, and committed to practical divinity. In these four things, Southern Edwardseanism lived, moved, and had its being. In the nineteenth-century, when so many Presbyterians scoffed at Edwards's "innovation" and Methodists scorned his Calvinism, Baptists found in Edwards a man after their own heart. By 1845, at the first Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Edwardseans had laid the groundwork for a convention marked by the theology of Jonathan Edwards." --Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Foreward 11 -- What is an Edwardsean'? 13 -- Jonathan Edwardss Theology in the NineteenthCentury Baptist South 31 -- South Carolina as the Birthplace of Southern Edwardseanism 71 -- The Four Schools of Southern Edwardseanism 95 -- New Divinity Abolitionists Slaveholding Southern Baptists and the Moral Government of God 129 -- Jonathan Edwardss Legacy in the Early Years of the Southern Baptist Convention 153 -- Jonathan Edwards and the SBC Today 177 -- List of Southern Edwardsean Clergy 17501895 195 -- Index 201.