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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, & Non-Christian Faiths

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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, & Non-Christian Faiths - McDermott, Gerald R
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It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguements 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 creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who ...

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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, & Non-Christian Faiths 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195132748

Hardcover