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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods - Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths

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Zusatztext McDermott has done a thorough and painstaking job in piecing together Edwards's views on non-Christian religion ... a valuable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century theology Gerald R. McDermott is the Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. Klappentext This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was unparalleled in the eighteenth century and surprisingly generous toward non-Christian traditions. Zusammenfassung It has been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - which denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. The author argues that Edwards's real target was a more influential one, namely deism - the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation.

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Gerald R. McDermott is the Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion at Roanoke College and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion.

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Authors Gerald R. McDermott, Gerald R. (Associate Professor of Relig Mcdermott, McDermott Gerald R.
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.05.2000
 
EAN 9780195132748
ISBN 978-0-19-513274-8
No. of pages 264
Series Religion in America
Religion in America
Oxford University Press
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity

PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion

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