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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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.


