The Other Jonathan Edwards: Selected Writings on Society, Love, and Justice
Editat de Gerald McDermott, Ronald Storyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2015
Through a selection of sermons and primary writings, McDermott and Story reveal an Edwards who preached love toward all humanity regardless of belief or appearance; who demanded private and public charity to the poor; who criticized hard-hearted business dealings as impious and socially destructive; and who condemned envy and status-seeking as anti-Christian and anti-community. This “other” Jonathan Edwards preached about grace and the love of God but also about responsive constitutional government, the iniquities of hypocrisy and corruption, and the nature of wise leadership. He acknowledged the need for national defense but left room for popular revolt from tyranny. He anticipated a millennial age of peace and prosperity and believed that people should live in the world as they would live through grace in heaven.
Jonathan Edwards was, in sum, a worldly as well as spiritual reformer who resisted the materialistic, acquisitive, and individualistic currents of American culture. For these reasons, McDermott and Story think he may have lessons to teach us today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781625341525
ISBN-10: 1625341520
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 5 b&w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-10: 1625341520
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 5 b&w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Notă biografică
GERALD MCDERMOTT is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, and coauthor of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards. RONALD STORY is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012). To view a video of Story's talk about Jonathan Edwards and climate change, please see http://bit.ly/1Y595mk
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Significant Dates in Edwards’s Life
Maps
Northampton’s Meeting Houses
Introduction
Reading Selections
1. Sermon: “Living Peaceably One with Another” (1723): Edwards’s youthful strain of communitarian idealism
2. Miscellanies Notebook: “The Millennium” (1723, 1726): Early social and political commentary
3. Images of Divine Things (1738): Gravity as a type of love
4. Sermon: “Sin and Wickedness Bring Calamity and Misery” (1729): The national covenant
5. Sermon: “Envious Men” (1730): On status-seeking and its social implications
6. Sermon: “The State of Public Affairs” (1731–32): God deals not only with individuals but also with whole societies
7. Sermon: “The Duty of Charity to the Poor” (1733): On the duty of Christians and the state to assist the underprivileged
8. Sermon: “The Excellency of Christ” (1736): Christ’s humility and love
9. Sermon: “Charity Contrary to a Selfish Spirit” (1738): The beauty of love in community
10. Sermon: “Long-Suffering and Kindness” (1738): Dealing with injuries from others
11. Sermon: “Heaven Is a World of Love” (1738): The society of heaven is everything our society ought to be
12. A History of the Work of Redemption: “The Millennium” Miscellanies Notebook: “The Millennium” (1740): Times of great peace and love
13. Sermon: “Mercy and Not Sacrifice” (1740): Moral duties an essential part of religion
14. “A Church Covenant” (1742): Strict regard to rules of honesty, justice, and uprightness
15. Sermon: “The Duties of Christians in a Time of War” (1745): The possibility and conditions of just war
16. Treatise concerning Religious Affections (1746): On Christian character
17. Sermon: “A Strong Rod Broken and Withered” (1748): The qualities of a good political leader
18. Sermon: “Farewell Sermon” (1750): Someday we shall all meet again
19. Letter to Speaker Thomas Hubbard (1751): Caring for Indians
20. Moral Philosophy: The Nature of True Virtue (1756–57): What is true virtue?
For Further Reading
Index
Significant Dates in Edwards’s Life
Maps
Northampton’s Meeting Houses
Introduction
Reading Selections
1. Sermon: “Living Peaceably One with Another” (1723): Edwards’s youthful strain of communitarian idealism
2. Miscellanies Notebook: “The Millennium” (1723, 1726): Early social and political commentary
3. Images of Divine Things (1738): Gravity as a type of love
4. Sermon: “Sin and Wickedness Bring Calamity and Misery” (1729): The national covenant
5. Sermon: “Envious Men” (1730): On status-seeking and its social implications
6. Sermon: “The State of Public Affairs” (1731–32): God deals not only with individuals but also with whole societies
7. Sermon: “The Duty of Charity to the Poor” (1733): On the duty of Christians and the state to assist the underprivileged
8. Sermon: “The Excellency of Christ” (1736): Christ’s humility and love
9. Sermon: “Charity Contrary to a Selfish Spirit” (1738): The beauty of love in community
10. Sermon: “Long-Suffering and Kindness” (1738): Dealing with injuries from others
11. Sermon: “Heaven Is a World of Love” (1738): The society of heaven is everything our society ought to be
12. A History of the Work of Redemption: “The Millennium” Miscellanies Notebook: “The Millennium” (1740): Times of great peace and love
13. Sermon: “Mercy and Not Sacrifice” (1740): Moral duties an essential part of religion
14. “A Church Covenant” (1742): Strict regard to rules of honesty, justice, and uprightness
15. Sermon: “The Duties of Christians in a Time of War” (1745): The possibility and conditions of just war
16. Treatise concerning Religious Affections (1746): On Christian character
17. Sermon: “A Strong Rod Broken and Withered” (1748): The qualities of a good political leader
18. Sermon: “Farewell Sermon” (1750): Someday we shall all meet again
19. Letter to Speaker Thomas Hubbard (1751): Caring for Indians
20. Moral Philosophy: The Nature of True Virtue (1756–57): What is true virtue?
For Further Reading
Index
Recenzii
“Theologian McDermott, a well-known Edwards scholar with no less than five major books on this most renowned of America's theologians, and historian Ronald Story, most recently author of the acclaimed Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), have teamed up in this little gem of a book to expand on a portrait of Edwards that is little known, and often overlooked. Herein are windows into Edwards as a social, if not public theologian, albeit approached from the perspective of Edwards as a reacher and even philosopher of the common good.”—International Journal of Public Theology
"The editors' introduction to Edwards's ministerial and literary career is worth the price of the book. Highly recommended."—CHOICE
“The Other Jonathan Edwards provides a rich resource for exciting interest in eighteenth-century New England life. Professors McDermott and Story have selected writings of Edwards that present him in his role as an idealistic moralist. This Edwards can be studied as one of the great moral philosophers in the golden age of moral philosophy.”—Early American Literature
“A judicious and well-timed collection of primary sources, introduced well, which reveals for students, general readers, and interested Christian laity 'the other Jonathan Edwards,' that is, the one whose life was dedicated to sharing the love of God, preaching social justice prophetically, and promoting peace, harmony, and the welfare of the needy in his own local communities and the eighteenth-century Anglo-American world.”—Douglas Sweeney, author of Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
"The editors' introduction to Edwards's ministerial and literary career is worth the price of the book. Highly recommended."—CHOICE
“The Other Jonathan Edwards provides a rich resource for exciting interest in eighteenth-century New England life. Professors McDermott and Story have selected writings of Edwards that present him in his role as an idealistic moralist. This Edwards can be studied as one of the great moral philosophers in the golden age of moral philosophy.”—Early American Literature
“A judicious and well-timed collection of primary sources, introduced well, which reveals for students, general readers, and interested Christian laity 'the other Jonathan Edwards,' that is, the one whose life was dedicated to sharing the love of God, preaching social justice prophetically, and promoting peace, harmony, and the welfare of the needy in his own local communities and the eighteenth-century Anglo-American world.”—Douglas Sweeney, author of Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards