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Adriaan Neele presents the first comprehensive study of Jonathan Edwards's use of Reformed orthodox and Protestant scholastic primary sources in the context of the challenges of orthodoxy in his day. Despite the breadth of new scholarship about the post-Edwards era, little analysis has been dedicated to his use of primary sources.
List of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Early New England and the Early Modern Era
- Chapter 1: Jonathan Edwards and the Protestant Scholastics
- Chapter 2: Sources of Christian Homiletics
- Chapter 3: Sources of Biblical Exegesis: An Ecumenical Enterprise
- Chapter 4: Sources of the Formulation of Doctrine: Continuity and Discontinuity?
- Chapter 5: Sources of History as Theology
- Conclusion and Prospect
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Adriaan C. Neele is a Research Scholar, Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University and Director of the Doctoral Program and Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Art of Living to God and Petrus van Mastrich: Reformed Orthodoxy and Piety.
Summary
Adriaan Neele presents the first comprehensive study of Jonathan Edwards's use of Reformed orthodox and Protestant scholastic primary sources in the context of the challenges of orthodoxy in his day. Despite the breadth of new scholarship about the post-Edwards era, little analysis has been dedicated to his use of primary sources.
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Restlessness is endemic to our age, but in Edwards's preaching and pastoring we find deep and satisfying theological roots. In this book, Neele helps us uncover the ways in which the sage from Northampton found spiritual nourishment to pass on to others, highlighting his trans-Atlantic context, favourite authors, and integrative spirituality. Though at first this seventeenth-century world may feel strange, rest assured that it will be balm for the soul.
