How Does Theology Benefit from Science | George Marsden
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 08/08/2018

Lecture Title - Jonathan Edwards & the Scientific Revolution

Edwards’s creative insights benefited much from Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy and the resultant scientific and technological advances of the English Enlightenment. Edwards was deeply enamored with natural philosophy, and he warmly embraced its new discoveries. He saw within it striking implications for revitalizing theology, which resulted in both scientific and radical theological innovation from which we might still glean today.

George M. Marsden (PhD Yale University) is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (Oxford University Press, 1980), The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (Oxford University Press, 1994), and Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press, 2004). His biography of Jonathan Edwards won virtually every major historical prize, including the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Award, the Philip Schaff Prize, and the Eugene Genovese Prize.

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