Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691144303 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Perhaps the most remarkable contributor to the recent explosion of interest in Edwards is the Israeli historian Avihu Zakai."--Gerald McDermott, The Weekly Standard
A Customer said Most persuasive argument. The author clearly situates Edwards in his historical and intellectual context. He shows where Edwards comes from, what traditions he confronts, and the dialectic between his history and providentialism. Very intelligent, very readable. A superb history.
In response to the Enlightenment refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God's preeminence within the order of time. Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time and the meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration, Zakai considers Edwards's historical thought as a reaction, in part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and their growing disregard for theistic considerations.Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards's insistence that the process of history depends solely on God's redemptive activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout history, reading this doctrine as an