The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards
Author: Douglas A. Sweeney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019875406X

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.

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards
Author: Michael J. McClymond
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199791600

Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thought and include in-depth discussions of the extensive secondary literature on Edwards as well as Edwards's own writings. Its opening chapters set out Edwards's historical and personal theological contexts. The next thirty chapters connect Edwards's theological loci in the temporally-ordered way in which he conceptualized the theological enterprise-beginning with the triune God in eternity with his angels to the history of redemption as an expression of God's inner reality ad extra, and then back to God in eschatological glory.The authors analyze such themes as aesthetics, metaphysics, typology, history of redemption, revival, and true virtue. They also take up such rarely-explored topics as Edwards's missiology, treatment of heaven and angels, sacramental thought, public theology, and views of non-Christian religions. Running throughout the volume are what the authors identify as five basic theological constituents: trinitarian communication, creaturely participation, necessitarian dispositionalism, divine priority, and harmonious constitutionalism. Later chapters trace his influence on and connections with later theologies and philosophies in America and Europe. The result is a multi-layered analysis that treats Edwards as a theologian for the twenty-first-century global Christian community, and a bridge between the Christian West and East, Protestantism and Catholicism, conservatism and liberalism, and charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800
Author: Ulrich L. Lehner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019993794X

This text provides a comprehensive and reliable introduction to Christian theological literature originating in Western Europe from, roughly, the end of the French Wars of Religion (1598) to the Congress of Vienna (1815). Using a variety of approaches, the contributors examine theology spanning from Bossuet to Jonathan Edwards.

Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods

Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Author: Gerald Robert McDermott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000
Genre: Apologetics
ISBN: 0195132742

It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguements were aimed against Arminianism -- a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism -- the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.

The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology

The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191035831

The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology looks back to past resources that have informed Reformed theology and surveys present conversations among those engaged in Reformed theology today. First, the volume offers accounts of the major historical contexts of reformed theology, the various relationships (ancient and modern) which it maintains and from which it derives. Recent research has shown the intricate ties between the patristic and medieval heritage of the church and the work of the reformed movement in the sixteenth century. The past century has also witnessed an explosion of reformed theology outside the Western world, prompting a need for attention not only to these global voices but also to the unique (and contingent) history of reformed theology in the West (hence reflecting on its relationship to intellectual developments like scholastic method or the critical approaches of modern biblical studies). Second, the volume assesses some of the classic, representative texts of the reformed tradition, observing also their reception history. The reformed movement is not dominated by a single figure, but it does contain a host of paradigmatic texts that demonstrate the range and vitality of reformed thought on politics, piety, biblical commentary, dogmatic reflection, and social engagement. Third, the volume turns to key doctrines and topics that continue to receive attention by reformed theologians today. Contributors who are themselves making cutting edge contributions to constructive theology today reflect on the state of the question and offer their own proposals regarding a host of doctrinal topics and themes.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion
Author: John Corrigan
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195170210

This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. They describe the ways in which emotions affect various world religions, and analyse the manner in which certain components of religious represent and shape emotional performance.

The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology

The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology
Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195369440

This volume surveys the state of the discipline on topics of greatest importance to evangelical theology. The authors critically assess the state of the question, from both classical and evangelical traditions, and propose a future direction for evangelical thinking on the subject.--[Résumé de l'éditeur].

The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2008-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 019518727X

Organized primarily in terms of genre, this handbook includes original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible
Author: Michael Lieb
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199204543

This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books.

The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology

The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology
Author: William James Abraham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019966224X

This work features forty-one original essays which reflect a broad range of perspectives and methodological assumptions. It focuses on standard epistemic concepts that are usually thought of as questions about norms and sources of theology (including reasoning, experience, tradition, scripture, and revelation). Furthermore it explores general epistemic concepts that can be related to theology (i.e. wisdom, understanding, virtue, evidence, testimony, scepticism, and disagreement). Each chapter provides an analysis of the crucial issues and debates while identifying and articulating the relevant epistemic considerations. This work will stimulate future research.