| Author/Contributor(s): | Stein, Stephen J |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 11/22/1996 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
. . . gives a fine sense of the present state and the future direction of Edwards studies . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. --Choice
. . . this volume opens up new windows, not only on previously neglected texts of Jonathan Edwards, but on the larger cultural functions and effects of those texts. --Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Here is a compact survey of current Edwards scholarship. These essays present groundbreaking contemporary scholarship focusing on the writings of the 18th-century American philosopher and theologian Jonathan Edwards. They range widely across the Edwardsian canon, including his most prominent and important published texts--Religious Affections and The Nature of True Virtue--as well as unfamiliar treatises and sermons.