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
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