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Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Reality: The Relationship of God to the World, Redemption History, and the Reprobate
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781630878122 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 10/19/2011 |
Series: | Princeton Theological Monograph Series , #172 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 346 |
File size: | 1 MB |
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.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1
1 Jonathan Edwards's Spiritual Vision of Reality 25
2 A Personal Narrative of the Vision of God 37
3 Comprehensive Theocentricity 53
4 The Formulation of Jonathan Edwards's Theocentric Metaphysics (Part I) 71
5 Divine Comprehensiveness and Edwardsean Panentheism: The Formulation of Jonathan Edwards's Theocentric Metaphysics (Part II) 79
6 The Becomingness of God: The Formulation of Jonathan Edwards's Theocentric Metaphysics (Part III) 94
7 The Application of Jonathan Edwards's Dispositional Concepts 106
8 The Beauty of Being: An Aesthetic Ontology of Human Being 127
9 Re-conceiving Human Being 146
10 God Glorified in Man's Existence 185
11 The First Sin 207
12 Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Salvation 233
13 Dispositional Peculiarity, History and Edwards's Evangelistic Appeal to Self-Love 254
Conclusion 289
Appendix A Panentheistic, but not Process Philosophy 297
Appendix B Sufficient and Efficacious Grace 300
What People are Saying About This
"There are a number of studies on the theocentric metaphysics of the Puritan divine Jonathan Edwards. This work distinguishes itself by its careful attention to detail, its comprehensive scope, and its sympathetic interaction with much of the recent Edwards scholarship. Bombaro presents his readers with a picture of the Sage of Northampton's theology, which emphasizes the glorification of God in the creationand even in the reprobationof human beings. This will be welcomed by scholars and readers of Edwards as a helpful addition to the expanding literature on the subject."
Oliver Crisp
Professor of Systematic Theology
Fuller Theological Seminary
"A bold and carefully crafted challenge to current interpretations of Edwards, this work seeks a synthesis of those who insist that Edwards was an orthodox thinker and those who portray him as a modern one. Beginning with Edwards' theocentricity, with its vision of the unity of all in and for God, it grapples with what is for modern minds the more distasteful aspects of his theologyhis adherence to the teachings of reprobation and the eternal destruction of the damned."
Kenneth P. Minkema
Executive Editor and Director
The Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
"Jonathan Edwards worked out a vivid personal view of the relations of God and humanity. In this rigorous engagement with Edwards's philosophical theology, John Bombaro shows that the theologian's vision was the fruit of his conversion and found a place even for reprobates in the glorification of their Creator."
David Bebbington
Professor of History
University of Stirling
"John Bombaro's book on Edwards is most welcome. It shows in clear, well-argued prose with considerable learning that Edwards's theology is definite and clear and not a nose of wax, a plaything for the theologians. Indeed, as he shows, Edwards's Calvinism has some extreme elements to it. The publication of this book should curb excessive and speculative interpretations of his theology."
Paul Helm
Teaching Fellow
Regent College, Vancouver