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Handbook offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards by a diverse, international, and inter-disciplinary group of active Edwards scholars.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Edwards' Backgrounds, Sources, and Contexts
- 1: Ava Chamberlain: Family Life
- 2: Harry S. Stout: Parish Ministry
- 3: George Marsden: Historical and Ecclesiastical Contexts
- 4: David W. Kling: Edwards in the Context of International Revivals and Missions
- 5: Peter J. Thuesen: Sources of Edwards' Thought
- Part II: Edwards' Intellectual Labours
- 6: William J. Wainwright: Ontology
- 7: Paul Helm: Epistemology
- 8: Kyle C. Strobel: The Nature of God and the Trinity
- 9: S. Mark Hamilton: The Person of Christ
- 10: Robert W. Caldwell III: Pneumatology
- 11: Stephen R. C. Nichols: Revelation
- 12: Wim van Vlastuin: Federalism and Reformed Scholasticism
- 13: Phillip Hussey and Michael McClymond: Creation and Predestination
- 14: Jan Stievermann: History, Providence, and Eschatology
- 15: David P. Barshinger: Sin and Evil
- 16: Seng-Kong Tan: Anthropology, Affections, and Free Will
- 17: Rhys Bezzant: Ecclesiology and Sacraments
- 18: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran: Ethics
- 19: William Dyrness and Christi Wells: Aesthetics
- 20: Kathryn Reklis: Imagination and Hermeneutics
- 21: Avihu Zakai: The Natural Sciences and Philosophy of Nature
- 22: Sebastian Rehnman: Divine Idealism and Etiology
- Part III: Edwards' Religious and Social Practices
- 23: Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe: Spirituality and Devotion
- 24: Robert E. Brown: Biblical Exegesis
- 25: Kenneth P. Minkema: Writing and Preaching Sermons
- 26: Esmari Potgieter: Education
- 27: John A. Grigg: Missions
- 28: John Saillant: Ministry to the Enslaved
- 29: Mark Valeri: Politics and Economics
- Part IV: Edwards' Global Reception
- 30: James P. Byrd: North America
- 31: Jonathan Yeager: Britain and Europe
- 32: Sandra M.Gustafson: Edwards' Place and Importance in Anglo-American Literature
- 33: Dongsoo Han: Asia
- 34: Stuart Piggin: Australia
- 35: Adriaan C. Neele: Africa
- 36: Heber Carlos de Campos, Jr.: Latin America
- 37: Douglas A. Sweeney: Edwards Studies Today
About the author
Douglas A. Sweeney is Dean and Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.
Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in the US at Heidelberg University.
Summary
This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards by a diverse, international, and inter-disciplinary group of active Edwards scholars.
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The seriousness with which its chapters plumb Edwards, in all his dimensions, and the stunning provision it makes for the continuance of his study. We are indebted to them all.
