Phillips Edwards Amasa Park: The Last Edwardsean

The Last Edwardsean
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-647-56030-4
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies

Edwards Amasa Park (1808-1900) of Andover championed Edwardsean Calvinism in the United States from the Jacksonian era until the very close of the nineteenth century by employing rhetorical strategies that lent his New England theology fresh apologetic usefulness. The thesis demonstrates that Park has been incorrectly identified as a Taylorite but, extending the argument of Joseph Conforti, ought to be viewed as re-casting his inherited Hopkinsian exercise scheme into a fresh historical synthesis influenced by contemporary patterns of thought. Park's own training at Andover in the irenic divinity of Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods, his application as rhetorician of the work of Hugh Blair and George Campbell and his exposure in Germany to the Vermittlungstheologie of Friedrich Tholuck and Julius Müller gave specific definition to his own theological project. Additionally, the thesis argues that Park ought not to be viewed as a romantic idealist in the line of Horace Bushnell or as a proto-liberal in advance of the Andover liberals who succeeded him. Park retained a life-long commitment to a commingled epistemology and methodology derived from Lockean empiricism, Baconian induction, natural theology and Scottish common sense realism. As a formidable apologist for his revivalist inheritance identified with Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins, Edwards Amasa Park conserved the substance and prolonged the influence of his beloved New England theology by securing for it modes of expression well fitted to his nineteenth-century audience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Charles W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Acknowledgements;8
4;Table of Contents;10
5;Body;12
6;Abbreviations in the Notes;12
7;Chapter One;16
7.1;Introduction: Edwards A. Park and The Creative Conservation of the New England Theology;16
8;Chapter Two;50
8.1;The Arc of New England Theology: From Edwards to Edwards Amasa Park;50
9;Chapter Three;78
9.1;Framing the New England Theology: Intellectual Influences on Park's Development;78
10;Chapter Four;112
10.1;?The Theology of the Intellect and That of the Feelings': Rhetorical Strategies;112
11;Chapter Five;142
11.1;Defining The New England Theology: The Creation of an Authenticating Tradition;142
12;Chapter Six;172
12.1;Defending The New England Theology: Competing Methods and Narratives;172
13;Chapter Seven;210
13.1;Conclusion: The Last Edwardsean;210
14;Bibliographical Note;220
15;Select Bibliography;222
15.1;Edwards Amasa Park Primary Sources;222
15.1.1;Papers and Correspondence (by Repository);222
15.1.2;Journal Articles;222
15.1.3;Articles in Published Works;223
15.1.4;Other Publications;223
15.1.5;Student Notebooks of Park's Andover Lectures;224
16;Index of Names;226

Über Autor(innen)

Phillips, Charles W.
Charles W. Phillips ist Geschäftsführer an der Maclellan Family Foundations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.