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American religious history
Author_Carol Ball
authority and dissent
Avihu Zakai
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Cambridge Platform
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contemplative intellectuals
Edwards's Theology
Edwards's Thought
Edwards’s Theology
Edwards’s Thought
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experiential spirituality
faithful
Frontier Revival
Full Church Members
God Glorified
God's Absolute Sovereignty
God's Moral Perfection
God's Sovereignty
gods
God’s Absolute Sovereignty
God’s Moral Perfection
God’s Sovereignty
Gracious Affections
Great Awakening
Halfway Covenant
Hugo Grotius
Humble Inquiry
narrative
Norman Fiering
Northampton Congregation
Personal Conversion Experience
Personal Development
prince
Puritan theology
religious self-fashioning
Reverend Thomas Prince
Sarah's Experiences
Sarah’s Experiences
sovereignty
SPG
spiritual identity formation in clergy
thomas
Thunder Storms
trust
truth
Yale College
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138053069
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exploring the inner motivations of one of America’s greatest religious thinkers, this book analyses the ways in which Jonathan Edwards' intense personal piety and deep experience of divine sovereignty drove an introverted intellectual along a course that would eventually develop into a mature and respected public intellectual. Throughout his life, the tension between his innately contemplative nature and the active demands of public office was a constant source of internal and public strife for Edwards. Approaching Jonathan Edwards offers a new theoretical approach to the study of Edwards, with an emphasis on his writing activity as the key strategy in shaping his legacy. Tracing Edwards’ strategic self-fashioning of his persona through the many conflicts in which he was engaged, the critical turning points in his life, and his strategies for managing conflicts and crises, Carol Ball concludes that Edwards found his place as a superlative contemplative apologist and theorist of experiential spirituality.
Following undergraduate theological studies majoring on the history of Christian thought, Carol Ball developed a particular interest in the phenomenon of revivalism in the American scene. Ten years of subsequent postgraduate research into Jonathan Edwards led to degrees of Master of Philosophy (for a comparative study of the epistemology of Edwards and John Locke) and Doctor of Philosophy (for a study of the development of the persona of Edwards), both from The University of Queensland.
