The Thought of Jonathan Edwards

Miklos Veto, Philip Choinière-Shields

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781498226240
  9781498226264
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498226257
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Jonathan Edwards is the greatest theologian of colonial America as well as its first important philosopher. As a theologian, he represents without any concession Calvinistic Orthodoxy, re-thought and re-lived through the experience of the Great Awakening. The large majority of his writings are of a theological character, yet this theology is articulated and expressed through a systematic philosophical reflection. Edwardsian thought covers three major areas: First, being, grace, and glory; then, the doctrine of the will extending to the study of the original sin and evil; finally, an entirely original theory of knowledge synthesizing spirituality, aesthetics, and epistemology. The present book, the first edition of which appeared in French almost thirty years ago, is a uniquely comprehensive study of the work of Jonathan Edwards. It discusses all the aspects of his thought over against the background of classical Protestant theology and of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western philosophy. Our time witnesses a significant renewal of interest in Jonathan Edwards. Professor Veto's book should prove to be a major contribution to assist and to guide the readers of "America's Theologian."

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Foreword
• The author’s preface to the American edition of his book
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: From Being to Grace
• Chapter 2: The Will
• Chapter 3: God and the Evil Will
• Chapter 4: The Evil in Good
• Chapter 5: Spiritual Idea and Natural Knowledge
• Chapter 6: The Knowledge of Spiritual Things
• Chapter 7: The Two Beauties
• Chapter 8: The Whole and the Essential
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Can Man Wish to be Damned?
• Appendix 2: Saints and Damned
• Chronology
• Bibliographic Notice
• Concordance
• Bibliography