The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards

Sang Hyun Lee

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780691203140, 9780691121086
• eBook ISBN: 9780691210278
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely recognized as one of the greatest philosopher-theologians America has ever produced, and recent years have seen a remarkable increase in research on his writings. To date, however, there has been no single authoritative volume that introduces and interprets the key aspects of Edwards' thought as a whole. The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards provides just such a concise and comprehensive work, one that will be invaluable to students and scholars of American religion and theology as well as of literature, philosophy, and history.

Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars on Edwards, the book will inform and challenge readers on subjects ranging from Edwards' understanding of the Trinity, God and the world, Christ, and salvation, as well as of history, typology, the church, and mission to Native Americans. It also includes a chronology of Edwards' life and writings that incorporates current research. Those familiar with Edwards' writings will find in these essays succinct expositions as well as bold new interpretations, and others will find an accessible, authoritative, up-to-date orientation to his multifaceted thought.

The essays are by Robert E. Brown, Allen C. Guezlo, Robert W. Jenson, Wilson H. Kimnach, Janice Knight, Sang Hyun Lee, Gerald R. McDermott, Kenneth P. Minkema, Mark Noll, Richard R. Niebuhr, Amy Plantinga Pauw, John E. Smith, Stephen J. Stein, Harry S. Stout, Douglas A. Sweeney, Peter J. Thuesen, and John F. Wilson.

Index

ability, natural vs. moral, 123

Abraham, 172, 197

accountability, 116, 124, 125

action, 104, 115, 117, 126

Acts, Book of, 263, 265

Adam, 14, 299, 300. See also imputation

Addison, Joseph, 19; Guardian, 25

ad intra/ad extra. See God

aesthetics, 38, 53, 93, 112, 265

affections, 111; emphasis on, 8; and God, 162; gracious, 105; gracious vs. natural, 151; instinctive, 162; and JE’s upbringing, 1; kind, 157, 161; and Locke, 109; and love, 104; marks of, 151, 154; between men and women, 161; and morality, 157; and passions, 103, 104; true vs. false, 105; as unity of idea and feeling, 105; and virtue, 162; and will, 104

Alexander, Archibald, 296

Alexandrians, 73, 79, 84n.6

Alsted, Johann Heinrich, Scientiarum Omnium Encyclopaediae, 19

America, 219–20

Ames, William, 243, 259; Medulla Sacrae Theologiae, 19

ancients, 11, 29, 50–51, 212

Anderson, Wallace E., 22, 37

Andover Seminary, 293, 297, 301

angels, 57, 77, 173–74

Anglicanism, 20, 26

Anselm, 74, 76, 106

anthropology, 14, 204

Antichrist, 232, 234–35, 238, 287

antinomians, 12

Antiochenes, 73, 79, 84n.6

apocalypse, 217, 218, 229, 230, 234–35, 282. See also eschatology; millennium

apprehension, 110, 112. See also perception

Arianism, 25

Aristotle, 18, 60, 65, 67, 68, 84n.10, 116–17, 131

Arminianism, 11, 14, 285; in “Account Book,” 25; atonement in, 140; context of, 118–19; destruction of, 121; and Drummer’s collection, 20, 21; and fatalism, 126; and freedom of moral agents, 120; and justification, 145; and Lord’s Supper, 119; polemic against, 7; and Trinity, 49; and will, 118, 124, 125

Arminius, Jacobus, 117

Arnauld, Antoine, La Logique, ou L’art de ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Note on References to the Yale Edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards
• Chronology of Edwards’ Life and Writings
• One: Jonathan Edwards: A Theological Life
• Two: Edwards’ Intellectual Background
• Three: Being and Consent
• Four: The Trinity
• Five: God’s Relation to the World
• Six: Christology
• Seven: The Bible
• Eight: Religious Affections and the “Sense of the Heart”
• Nine: Freedom of the Will
• Ten: Grace and Justification by Faith Alone
• Eleven: Christian Virtue and Common Morality
• Twelve: The Church
• Thirteen: Typology
• Fourteen: History
• Fifteen: Eschatology
• Sixteen: The Sermons: Concept and Execution
• Seventeen: Missions and Native Americans
• Eighteen: The Puritans and Edwards
• Nineteen: Edwards’ Theology after Edwards
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale Edition)
• List of Contributors
• Index