Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience

Contents......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 12
EDWARDS AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION......Page 26
2. Jonathan Edwards and America......Page 28
3. Edwards, Franklin, and Cotton Mather: A Meditation on Character and Reputation......Page 43
4. The Recovery of Jonathan Edwards......Page 59
EDWARDS IN CULTURAL CONTEXT......Page 80
5. The Rationalist Foundations of Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics......Page 82
6. Jonathan Edwards's Pursuit of Reality......Page 111
7.The Spirit and the Word: Jonathan Edwards and Scriptural Exegesis......Page 127
8. History, Redemption, and the Millennium......Page 140
9. The Puritans and Edwards......Page 151
10. "A Flood of Errors": Chauncy and Edwards in the Great Awakening......Page 169
THE LEGACY OF EDWARDS......Page 184
11. Piety and Moralism: Edwards and the New Divinity......Page 186
12. Calvinism and Consciousness from Edwards to Beecher......Page 214
13. Jonathan Edwards as a Figure in Literary History......Page 235
14. Jonathan Edwards and American Philosophy......Page 255
15. Jonathan Edwards and Nineteenth Century Theology......Page 269
A......Page 298
C......Page 299
E......Page 300
H......Page 301
L......Page 302
N......Page 303
P......Page 304
S......Page 305
T......Page 306
Y......Page 307