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Jonathan Edwards confronts the gods : Christian theology, Enlightenment religion, and non-Christian faiths /

It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism - the belief in a cr...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: McDermott, Gerald R. (Gerald Robert)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Table des matières:
  • Deists and the scandal of particularity
  • Edwards's war against Enlightenment religion
  • Our noblest faculty : the promise and limits of reason in religion
  • Signatures of divine majesty : the reason and mystery of revelation
  • Trickle-down revelation and religious entropy : the nature and history of religion
  • Parables in all nations : typology and the religions
  • A possibility of reconciliation : salvation and the "heathen"
  • Judaism : a light among the nations
  • Islam : the left arm of Antichrist
  • Greece and Rome : very noble and almost divine truths
  • American Indians : the devil sucks their blood
  • The Chinese philosophers : shadows of the Trinity.