Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Religion in America)

By Michael James McClymond

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118227
• ISBN13: 9780195118223
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12