Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience, & Thought

John T. Lowe, Daniel N. Gullotta, John T. Lowe, Daniel N. Gullotta, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Harry S. Stout

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783525564882
• eBook ISBN: 9783647564883
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Teologia cristiana

In her Epilogue entitled "What Is His Greatness?", Ola Elizabeth Winslow stated in the first serious modern biography of Jonathan Edwards: "In a word, it is the greatness of one who had a determining art of initiating and directing a popular movement of far-reaching consequence, and who in addition, laid the foundations for a new system of religious thought, also of far-reaching consequence." After two and a half centuries since Edwards's death, Winslow's statement is undoubtedly true, and perhaps, more so now than ever. The recovery of Edwards pioneered by Perry Miller, Ola Winslow, and Thomas Schafer, among others, has become what is often referred to as an "Edwards renaissance, " and has been made even more popular among lay people by John Piper, Stephen Nichols, and the like. Since the free online access of The Works of Jonathan Edwards by Yale University, dozens of books, and articles, as well as numerous dissertations, each year are written to seek a facet of Edwards's "greatness, " and thus as an exemplar of his continued "far-reaching consequence."Jonathan Edwards, more than any other pre-revolutionary colonial thinker, grappled with the promises and perils of the Enlightenment. Organized by John T. Lowe and Daniel N. Gullotta, Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment brings together a group of young and early career scholars to present their propping the life, times, and theology of one of America's greatest minds. Many of these subjects have been seldom explored by scholars while others offer new and exciting avenues into well covered territory. Some of these topics include Edwards' interaction with and involvement in slavery, colonialism, racism, as well as musings on gender, populism, violence, pain, and witchcraft.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Foreword
• John T. Lowe / Daniel N. Gullotta: Introduction: Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment of America
• Historiography
• Mark G. Spencer (Brock University): Jonathan Edwards and the Historiography of the American Enlightenment
• Controversies
• John Howard Smith (Texas A&M University-Commerce): “God Has Made Us to Differ”
• Gideon Mailer (University of Minnesota Duluth): “Freedom from spiritual slavery, but from civil too”
• John T. Lowe (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Destruction and Benevolence
• Daniel N. Gullotta (Stanford University): “By Magick and a Familiarity with the Devil”
• Society
• Obbie Tyler Todd (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary): The Populist Puritan: Jonathan Edwards and the Rise of American Populism
• Christian Cuthbert (Alliance Theological Seminary): “More Swiftly Propagating the Gospel”
• Russell J. Allen (Liberty University): Children as “White Paper”
• Experience
• Emily Dolan Gierer (University of Connecticut): Hannah Edwards Wetmore and Her Joyful Death
• Kamil Marcin Halambiec (The College of Theology and Social Sciences in Warsaw): Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightened Fear of Enthusiasm
• Lucas Hardy (Youngstown State University): Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of Pain
• Amelia Marini (Cuesta College): Seeing Happiness
• Theology
• Sarah B. Boss (Károli Gáspár University): “The Wheels of a Watch”
• Philip John Fisk (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit): Que sera, sera
• Christopher Woznicki (Fuller Theological Seminary): To Hell with the Enlightenment
• Matthew Everhard (Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church): Jonathan Edwards: An Intellect Precariously Astride Two Diverging Epochs
• Contributors