1st Edition

Jonathan Edwards Philsophical Theologian

By Oliver D. Crisp, Paul Helm Copyright 2003
    182 Pages
    by Routledge

    182 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2003. It has often been claimed that Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was America's greatest philosopher and theologian. From literary criticism of his sermons to philosophical assessments of his metaphysics, there has been a burgeoning industry in Edwardsian studies, but there has been no one place where an exploration of the theology and philosophy of Edwards has been brought together. 2003 marks the tercentenary date of the birth of Jonathan Edwards. This book draws together specially-commissioned contributions from philosophers and theologians from the USA and UK, to present new analytic philosophical and theological thinking on Edwards in a way that reflects Edwards' own concerns, as well as those current in the academy.

    1 Jonathan Edwards on Hell 2 Jonathan Edwards and the Doctrine of Hell 3 Edwards on Free Will 4 A Forensic Dilemma: John Locke and Jonathan Edwards on Personal Identity 5 How 'Occasional' was Edwards's Occasionalism? 6 The Master Argument of The Nature of True Virtue 7 Does Jonathan Edwards Use a Dispositional Ontology? A Response to Sang Hyun Lee 8 'One Alone Cannot be Excellent': Edwards on Divine Simplicity 9 Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman and non-Christian Religions 10 Salvation as Divinization: Jonathan Edwards, Gregory Palamas and the Theological Uses of Neoplatonism

    Biography

    Oliver D. Crisp (Author) ,  Paul Helm (Edited by)