Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality: The Relationship of God to the World, Redemption History, and the Reprobate (Princeton Theological Monograph)

Bombaro, John J.

ISBN 10: 1610974565 / ISBN 13: 9781610974561

Published by Pickwick Publications, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality: The Relationship of God to the World, Redemption History, and the Reprobate (Princeton Theological Monograph)
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610974565
• ISBN 13: 9781610974561
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

John J. Bombaro, PhD, is the Senior Priest at Grace Lutheran Church, San Diego, and a faculty member of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of San Diego.