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Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment : controversy, experience, & thought / John T. Lowe, Daniel N. Gullotta (eds.).

Contributor(s): Lowe, John T [editor.] | Gullotta, Daniel N [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies: v. 7.Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 337 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783525564882; 3525564880Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 | EnlightenmentDDC classification: 230/.58092 LOC classification: BX7260.E3 | J663 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment of America / John T. Lowe, Daniel N. Gullota -- Jonathan Edwards and the historiography of the American Enlightenment / Mark G. Spencer -- "God has made us to differ" : Jonathan Edwards, the Enlightenment, and the American Indian / John Howard Smith -- "Freedom from spiritual slavery, but from civil too" : Jonathan Edwards, the Scottish Enlightenment, and American slavery / Gideon Mailer -- Destruction and benevolence : the new divinity and origins of abolitionism in Edwardsean tradition / John T. Lowe -- "By magick and a familiarity with the devil" : constructing witchcraft in Enlightenment colonial New England and in the mind of Jonathan Edwards / Daniel N. Gullotta -- The populist Puritan : Jonathan Edwards and the rise of American populism / Obbie Tyler Todd -- "More swiftly propagating the gospel" : Jonathan Edwards, Col. John Stoddard, and the invasion of Canada / Christian Cuthbert -- Children as "white paper" : Jonathan Edwards and Enlightenment childhood / Russell J. Allen -- Hannah Edwards Wetmore and her joyful death : the deathbed confessional during the Enlightenment / Emily Dolan Gierer -- Jonathan Edwards and the enlightened fear of enthusiasm / Kamil Marcin Halambiec -- Jonathan Edwards and the aesthetics of pain / Lucas Hardy -- Seeing happiness : Jonathan Edwards and the art of perception / Amelia Marini -- "The wheels of a watch" : Jonathan Edwards's emblematic philosophy of time / Sarah B. Boss -- Que sera, sera : the controversial 1702 Harvard Commencement Quaestio on whether the immutability of God's decree takes away human freedom of the will / Philip John Fisk -- To hell with the Enlightenment : Jonathan Edwards and the doctrine of hell / Christopher Woznicki -- Jonathan Edwards : an intellect precariously astride two diverging epochs / Matthew Everhard.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment of America / John T. Lowe, Daniel N. Gullota -- Historiography. Jonathan Edwards and the historiography of the American Enlightenment / Mark G. Spencer -- Controversies. "God has made us to differ" : Jonathan Edwards, the Enlightenment, and the American Indian / John Howard Smith -- "Freedom from spiritual slavery, but from civil too" : Jonathan Edwards, the Scottish Enlightenment, and American slavery / Gideon Mailer -- Destruction and benevolence : the new divinity and origins of abolitionism in Edwardsean tradition / John T. Lowe -- "By magick and a familiarity with the devil" : constructing witchcraft in Enlightenment colonial New England and in the mind of Jonathan Edwards / Daniel N. Gullotta -- Society. The populist Puritan : Jonathan Edwards and the rise of American populism / Obbie Tyler Todd -- "More swiftly propagating the gospel" : Jonathan Edwards, Col. John Stoddard, and the invasion of Canada / Christian Cuthbert -- Children as "white paper" : Jonathan Edwards and Enlightenment childhood / Russell J. Allen -- Experience. Hannah Edwards Wetmore and her joyful death : the deathbed confessional during the Enlightenment / Emily Dolan Gierer -- Jonathan Edwards and the enlightened fear of enthusiasm / Kamil Marcin Halambiec -- Jonathan Edwards and the aesthetics of pain / Lucas Hardy -- Seeing happiness : Jonathan Edwards and the art of perception / Amelia Marini -- Theology. "The wheels of a watch" : Jonathan Edwards's emblematic philosophy of time / Sarah B. Boss -- Que sera, sera : the controversial 1702 Harvard Commencement Quaestio on whether the immutability of God's decree takes away human freedom of the will / Philip John Fisk -- To hell with the Enlightenment : Jonathan Edwards and the doctrine of hell / Christopher Woznicki -- Jonathan Edwards : an intellect precariously astride two diverging epochs / Matthew Everhard.

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