The contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American culture and society
Subtitle: essays on America's spiritual founding father (the Northampton tercentenary celebration, 1703-2003)
By: edited by Richard A.S. Hall.
Contributors: Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.; Hall, Richard A. S.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780773450608
Subjects: Edwards, Jonathan, -- 1703-1758 -- Influence; United States -- Civilization
Table of contents: title: Part I: Introduction; title: The historical background to the Edwards tercentenary / Richard A. S. Hall; title: Banquet address : J. Edwards conference / Huston Smith; title: Part II: Edwards as social & political philosopher; title: Why is Jonathan Edwards America's spiritual founding father? / Herbert Richardson; title: The mind of Jonathan Edwards : beyond America / M. Darrol Bryant; title: Vast and ecumenical holding company : Edwardsean millennial themes in nineteenth-and twentieth-century dystopian fiction / James Hewitson; title: Part III: Edwards as interpreter of nature; title: Edwards, Swedenborg, Emerson : from typology to correspondence / Devin P. Zuber; title: From Edwards to Emerson to Eddy : extending a trajectory of metaphysical idealism / David L. Weddle; title: Edwards, Thoreau, Dillard : reading/writing nature and the awakened/awakening self / Michael G. Ditmore; title: Part IV: Edwards & American philosophy; title: Experience as religious discovery in Edwards & Peirce / Roger Ward; title: Jonathan Edwards as proto-pragmatist and John Dewey as post-theological calvinist / Stuart Rosenbaum; title: Part V: Edwards in his context; title: Bishop Butler and Jonathan Edwards / David White; title: Doing metaethics with Kant and Edwards / Charles Don Keyes; title: Part VI: Edwards & theology; title: Satan and his maleficium in the thought of Jonathan Edwards / Scott D. Seay; title: Jonathan Edwards trinitarian theology in the context of the early Enlightenment deist controversy / Steve Studebaker; title: Part VII: Miscellaneous themes in Edwards; title: Jonathan Edwards, children, and young people : less of earth and more of heaven / Charles Pierce; title: Edwards contribution to the missionary movement of early Baptists / Michael D. Thompson; title: Edwards as mystic / Richard A.S. Hall; title: Heaven is a world of love / Ronald Story.