The contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American culture and society: essays on America's spiritual founding father (the Northampton Tercentenary Celebration, 1703-2003)

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Contributors: Hall, Richard A. S. (Editor) ; Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 (Honoree)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lewiston, NY ; Queenston, ON ; Lampeter Edwin Mellen Press 2008
In:Year: 2008
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 / Christian philosophy / Reception / USA / Cultural identity
B Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 / Theology
B Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 / Influence / USA / Culture / Society
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBQ North America
KDD Protestant Church
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B United States Civilization
B Edwards Jonathan 1703-1758 Influence
B Conference program 2003 (Northampton, Mass)
B Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758) Influence
B Festschrift
B Conference program
B Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758
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Item Description:Part I: Introduction -- The historical background to the Edwards tercentenary / Richard A. S. Hall -- Banquet address : J. Edwards conference / Huston Smith -- Part II: Edwards as social & political philosopher -- Why is Jonathan Edwards America's spiritual founding father? / Herbert Richardson -- The mind of Jonathan Edwards : beyond America / M. Darrol Bryant -- One vast and ecumenical holding company : Edwardsean millennial themes in nineteenth-and twentieth-century dystopian fiction / James Hewitson -- Part III: Edwards as interpreter of nature -- Edwards, Swedenborg, Emerson : from typology to correspondence / Devin P. Zuber -- From Edwards to Emerson to Eddy : extending a trajectory of metaphysical idealism / David L. Weddle -- Edwards, Thoreau, Dillard : reading/writing nature and the awakened/awakening self / Michael G. Ditmore -- Part IV: Edwards & American philosophy -- Experience as religious discovery in Edwards & Peirce / Roger Ward -- Jonathan Edwards as proto-pragmatist and John Dewey as post-theological Calvinist / Stuart Rosenbaum -- Part V: Edwards in his context -- Bishop Butler and Jonathan Edwards / David White -- Doing metaethics with Kant and Edwards / Charles Don Keyes -- Part VI: Edwards & theology -- Satan and his maleficium in the thought of Jonathan Edwards / Scott D. Seay -- Jonathan Edwards' trinitarian theology in the context of the early Enlightenment deist controversy / Steve Studebaker -- Part VII: Miscellaneous themes in Edwards -- Jonathan Edwards, children, and young people : less of earth and more of heaven / Charles Pierce -- Edwards contribution to the missionary movement of early Baptists / Michael D. Thompson -- Edwards as mystic / Richard A.S. Hall -- Heaven is a world of love / Ronald Story. - Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:0773450602