Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana--America's First Bible Commentary: Essays in Reappraisal
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780801039690
Table of contents: title: Cotton Mather and "Biblia Americana" : America's first Bible commentary : general introduction / Jan Stievermann; title: The vicissitudes of Mather's reputation. Glorious translation of an American Elijah : mourning Cotton Mather in 1728 / William Van Arragon; title: Abridging of Cotton Mather / E. Brooks Holifield; title: Mather in the context of international Protestantism. New England Puritanism and the ecumenical background of Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Francis J. Bremer; title: World as parish : Cotton Mather, August Hermann Francke, and transatlantic religious networks / Oliver Scheiding; title: Peter van Mastricht's Theoretico-practica theologia as an interpretative framework for Cotton Mather's work / Adriaan Neele; title: Enlightenment rationalism, Biblical literalism, and the supernatural. Cotton Mather, the "Biblia Americana," and the Enlightenment / Winton U. Solberg; title: Between biblical literalism and scientific inquiry : Cotton Mather's commentary on Jeremiah 8:7 / Michael Dopffel; title: Cotton Mather and the invisible world / Paul Wise; title: Mather's historical method and his approach to the history of religions. Historians as flower pickers and honey bees : Cotton Mather and the commonplace-book tradition of history / Rick Kennedy; title: "Flee from idols" : Cotton Mather and the historical books / Kenneth P. Minkema; title: "Eager imitators of the Egyptian inventions" : Cotton Mather's engagement with John Spencer and the debate about the pagan origin of the mosaic laws, rites, and customs / Reiner Smolinski; title: Euhemerism and ancient theology in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Harry Clark Maddux; title: Aspects of scriptural exegesis in the "Biblia Americana". Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the epistle of James : a comparative study / Stephen J. Stein; title: "The perfection of beauty" : Cotton Mather's christological interpretation of the Shechinah glory in the "Biblia Americana" and its theological contexts / Paul Silas Peterson; title: The eschatology of signs in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and Jonathan Edwards's case for the legibility of providence / Michael P. Clark; title: The controversy of the present time : Arianism, William Whiston, and the development of Cotton Mather's late eschatology / David Komline; title: Gender, race, and slavery in the "Biblia Americana". Regaining paradise : Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and the daughters of Eve / Helen K. Gelinas; title: Hair down to there : nature, culture, and gender in Cotton Mather's social theology / Robert E. Brown; title: Genealogy of races and the problem of slavery in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Jan Stievermann