Description
This book offers a broad-based totally look at of Jonathan Edwards as a non secular thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards relating to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, alternatively, examines Edwards relating to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each and every of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards inside the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. A number of the topics regarded as are non secular perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.