If I had been ...
Subtitle: ten historical fantasies
By: edited and introduced by Daniel Snowman
Publisher: Robson Books
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780860510451
Subjects: Imaginary histories
Description: In this major contribution to the study of one of America's best-known and most-imposing religious figures, fifteen scholars offer a sustained analysis of Jonathan Edwards's historical legacy throughout the world.
Table of contents: title: Remembering Edwards's ministry; title: The quest for the historical Edwards : the challenge of biography / George M. Marsden; title: A different legacy? the cultural turn in Edwards's later notebooks and the unwritten history of the work of redemption / Michael J. McClymond; title: Remembering Jonathan Edwards's ministry to children / Catherine A. Brekus; title: Bad books and bad boys : the transformation of gender in eighteenth-century Northampton, Massachusetts / Ava Chamberlain; title: Edwards and American culture; title: Jonathan Edwards, the Edwardsians, and the sacred cause of free trade / Mark Valeri; title: The political economy of depravity : the irrelevance (and relevance) of Jonathan Edwards / James D. German; title: All things were new and astonishing : Edwardsian piety, the new divinity, and race / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe; title: Beyond the men in black : Jonathan Edwards and nineteenth-century woman's fiction / Sharon Y. Kim; title: Gary Marshall's runaway bride in light of the religious affections and the nature of true virtue : reflections on popular American culture / Amanda Porterfield; title: Edwards around the World; title: Remembered around the world : the international scope of Edwards's legacy / David W. Bebbington; title: The reception of Jonathan Edwards by early evangelicals in England / D. Bruce Hindmarsh; title: Jonathan Edwards's Scottish connection / Christopher W. Mitchell; title: Missions and historical memory : Jonathan Edwards and David Brainerd / Andrew F. Walls; title: The expanding knowledge of God : Jonathan Edwards's influence on missionary thinking and promotion / Stuart Piggin; title: An honor too great : Jonathan Edwards in print abroad / M.X. Lesser.