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Approaching Jonathan Edwards offers a new theoretical approach to the study of Edwards, with an emphasis on his writing activity as the key strategy in shaping his legacy. This book analyses the ways in which Jonathan Edwards' intense personal piety and deep experience of divine sovereignty drove an introverted intellectual along a course that would eventually develop into a mature and respected public intellectual.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The Elusive Jonathan Edwards; Chapter 2 Edwards's Concept of and Submission to an Absolute Authority; Chapter 3 The External Threatening Other; Chapter 4 The Internal Threatening Other; Chapter 5 One Man's Authority is Another Man's Alien; Chapter 6 The Development of Edwards's Literary Persona; Chapter 7 Turning Points; Chapter 8 Understanding Edwards the Man;
About the author
Following undergraduate theological studies majoring on the history of Christian thought, Carol Ball developed a particular interest in the phenomenon of revivalism in the American scene. Ten years of subsequent postgraduate research into Jonathan Edwards led to degrees of Master of Philosophy (for a comparative study of the epistemology of Edwards and John Locke) and Doctor of Philosophy (for a study of the development of the persona of Edwards), both from The University of Queensland.
