Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1902, Vol. 16
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1902, Vol. 16

Author: Massachusetts Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9780282976064

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1902, Vol. 16: Second Series Special mention should be made here of the excellent work of Miss J. C. Watts (radcliffe, 1897) in annotating the Diary of J. Q. Adams. Nearly all Of the notes were prepared by her, and by her unwearied persever ance she has left almost nothing to be desired as to a knowledge of the various persons mentioned in the text, some of Whom left no descendants, and have passed entirely out of memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality
Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality

Author: John J. Bombaro

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-10-19

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1610974565

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Since the publication of Sang Hyun Lee's revolutionary commentary, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, scholars have considered the possibilities of understanding Jonathan Edwards's thought in terms of dispositional laws, forces, and habits. While some scholars reject the notion of a dispositional ontology in Edwards, others have taken the concept of disposition in his thought beyond the usage the Northampton minister ever indicated, especially with respect to soteriological considerations. The preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is made to be an inclusivist, if not a crypto-universalist. Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality substantiates that Edwards, in an effort to combat deistic and materialistic Enlightenment paradigms, employs dispositions in his philosophy, but that his radical theocentrism and Calvinistic particularism established its boundaries within his apologetical reconsideration of spatiotemporal and metaphysical reality. Within his "spiritual vision" of reality, Edwards leaves no stone unturned: history and even the reprobate find inherent value and a positive functional role not only in God's program of self-glorification but as manifestations of divine being--the damned are "deformities" in God. The logic of Edwards's theocentric vision of reality pushes his ideas to the limits of acceptable Reformed orthodoxy, and sometimes beyond those limits.