- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; Expanded edition (Feb 7 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691049424
- ISBN-13: 978-0691049427
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.9 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,068,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[An] enduring contribution to our understanding of the essential features of Edwards's thought. His is a bold and daring work in a way appropriate to the boldness of Edwards himself. -- Roland A. Delattre, Religious Studies Review
Lee's book establishes [its author] at the pinnacle of scholarship on Edwards. He significantly advances the dynamic element in Edwards's theology that has eluded so many others. -- John Stuart Erwin, American Historical Review
[The author's] is no small achievement ... to present Edwards's rich thought coherently while making it intensely relevant to contemporary intellectual concerns. Sang Lee's book is a central contribution to our increasing appreciation for this magisterial figure from the American past. -- John F. Wilson, Theology Today
Lee's book establishes [its author] at the pinnacle of scholarship on Edwards. He significantly advances the dynamic element in Edwards's theology that has eluded so many others. -- John Stuart Erwin, American Historical Review
[The author's] is no small achievement ... to present Edwards's rich thought coherently while making it intensely relevant to contemporary intellectual concerns. Sang Lee's book is a central contribution to our increasing appreciation for this magisterial figure from the American past. -- John F. Wilson, Theology Today
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This book demonstrates the originality and coherence of Jonathan Edwards' philosophical theology using his dynamic reconception of reality as the interpretive key. The author argues that what underlies Edwards' writings is a radical shift from the traditional Western metaphysics of substance and form to a new conception of the world as a network of dispositions: active and abiding principles that possess reality apart from their manifestations in actions and events. Edwards' dispositional ontology enables him to restate the Augustinian-Calvinist tradition in theology in a strikingly modern philosophical framework.
A prime example of Edwards' innovative reconstruction in philosophical theology is his conception of God as both eternal actuality and a disposition to repeat that actuality within God and also through creation. This view is a compelling alternative to the traditional Western doctrine of God as changeless actuality, on the one hand, and the recent process theologians' excessive stress on God's involvement in change, on the other. Edwards' achievement was that he saw dynamic movement as essential to God's own life without compromising the traditional Christian tenets of God's prior actuality and transcendence. The author of this volume also explicates the way in which Edwards' dynamic reconception of reality informs his theories of imagination, aesthetic perception, the knowledge of God, and the meaning of history.
This expanded edition includes a new preface and a new appendix titled "Jonathan Edwards on Nature."
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PERRY MILLER, who is largely responsible for the recent revival of interest in Jonathan Edwards, has claimed that the Puritan philosopher-theologian was "intellectually the most modern man of his age" and that in some of Edwards' insights he was "so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him." Read the first page
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PERRY MILLER, who is largely responsible for the recent revival of interest in Jonathan Edwards, has claimed that the Puritan philosopher-theologian was "intellectually the most modern man of his age" and that in some of Edwards' insights he was "so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him." Read the first page
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Essential to Understanding Jonathan Edwards,
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This review is from: The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Paperback)
Sang Hyun Lee's book is the essential text on Edwards's metaphysics. Not everyone thinks he is right (though I, like most mainstream Edwards scholars, think he is) but every knowledgable scholar realizes that the path to understanding Edwards's metaphysics lies through Lee's work and not around it. The book is densely and carefully written, and at least one graduate student has embarrassed himself in print through failure to read as carefully as Lee wrote. In sum, it is a difficult but totally indispensable book, and whoever is seeking to understand Jonathan Edwards as a thinker must digest it.
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Sang Hyun Lee's book is the essential text on Edwards's metaphysics. Not everyone thinks he is right (though I, like most mainstream Edwards scholars, think he is) but every knowledgable scholar realizes that the path to understanding Edwards's metaphysics lies through Lee's work and not around it. The book is densely and carefully written, and at least one graduate student has embarrassed himself in print through failure to read as carefully as Lee wrote. In sum, it is a difficult but totally indispensable book, and whoever is seeking to understand Jonathan Edwards as a thinker must digest it.
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This review is from: The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Paperback)
Sang Hyun Lee's book is the essential text on Edwards's metaphysics. Not everyone thinks he is right (though I, like most mainstream Edwards scholars, think he is) but every knowledgable scholar realizes that the path to understanding Edwards's metaphysics lies through Lee's work and not around it. The book is densely and carefully written, and at least one graduate student has embarrassed himself in print through failure to read as carefully as Lee wrote. In sum, it is a difficult but totally indispensable book, and whoever is seeking to understand Jonathan Edwards as a thinker must digest it.
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Essential to Understanding Jonathan Edwards,
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This review is from: The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Paperback)
Sang Hyun Lee's book is the essential text on Edwards's metaphysics. Not everyone thinks he is right (though I, like most mainstream Edwards scholars, think he is) but every knowledgable scholar realizes that the path to understanding Edwards's metaphysics lies through Lee's work and not around it. The book is densely and carefully written, and at least one graduate student has embarrassed himself in print through failure to read as carefully as Lee wrote. In sum, it is a difficult but totally indispensable book, and whoever is seeking to understand Jonathan Edwards as a thinker must digest it.
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