History, providence, and eschatology
This chapter discusses Edwards’s view of history and the end times. It does so by examining four interlocking frameworks of interpretation that Edwards inherited from Reformed-Puritan theology: first, a general approach to relating the Bible and history; second, an intense kind of providentialism; t...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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10 February 2021
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The Oxford handbook of Jonathan Edwards
Year: 2021, Pages: 215-234 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754060.013.15 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754060.013.15 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38653/chapter-abstract/335755110?redirectedFrom=fulltext 
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| Author Notes: | Jan Stievermann |
| Summary: | This chapter discusses Edwards’s view of history and the end times. It does so by examining four interlocking frameworks of interpretation that Edwards inherited from Reformed-Puritan theology: first, a general approach to relating the Bible and history; second, an intense kind of providentialism; third, specific forms of biblical theology aiming toward an integrated salvation history; and fourth, a futurist type of millennialist eschatology. What emerges from this is the picture of an Edwards who was, for the most part, a traditionalist. At the same time, he, like many of his peers, engaged with the intellectual discourses of the Enlightenment, both by partaking in them and criticizing their perceived excesses. Edwards’s version of a moderate Protestant Enlightenment produced a deepened, eschatologically inflected interest in redemption history, which he understood as a progressive continuum. Within this framework of history Edwards came to assign crucial significance to revivals. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 20.12.2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780191815799 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754060.013.15 |