Jonathan Edwards's [i.e. Edwards'] vision of reality
Subtitle: the relationship of God to the world, redemption history, and the reprobate
By: John J. Bombaro
Series: Princeton theological monograph series -- 172; Princeton theological monograph series -- 172.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781610974561
Subjects: Doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; Puritans; History
Description: Since the publication of Sang Hyun Lee's revolutionary commentary, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, scholars have considered the possibilities of understanding Jonathan Edwards's thought in terms of dispositional laws, forces, and habits. While some scholars reject the notion of a dispositional ontology in Edwards, others have taken the concept of disposition in his thought beyond the usage the Northampton minister ever indicated, especially with respect to soteriological considerations. The preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is made to be an inclusivist, if not a crypto-universalist. Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality substantiates that Edwards, in an effort to combat deistic and materialistic Enlightenment paradigms, employs dispositions in his philosophy, but that his radical theocentrism and Calvinistic particularism established its boundaries within his apologetical reconsideration of spatiotemporal and metaphysical reality. Within his "spiritual vision" of reality, Edwards leaves no stone unturned: history and even the reprobate find inherent value and a positive functional role not only in God's program of self-glorification but as manifestations of divine being--the damned are "deformities" in God. The logic of Edwards's theocentric vision of reality pushes his ideas to the limits of acceptable Reformed orthodoxy, and sometimes beyond those limits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-317) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Jonathan Edwards's spiritual vision of reality; title: A Personal narrative of the vision of God; title: Comprehensive theocentricity; title: The formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part I); title: Divine comprehensiveness and Edwardsean panentheism : the formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part II); title: The becomingness of God : the formulation of Jonathan Edwards's theocentric metaphysics (part III); title: The application of Jonathan Edwards's dispositional concepts; title: The beauty of being : an aesthetic ontology of human being; title: Re-conceiving human being; title: God glorified in man's existence; title: The first sin; title: Jonathan Edwards's vision of salvation; title: Dispositional peculiarity, history and Edwards's evangelistic appeal to self-love.