Jonathan Edwards

Résumé du livre

This study is an intellectual biography of a man who lived through the central issues of the latter part of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century and who made those issues the structure of his own life and mind. In it, Edwards converged the two master designs of his age -- one, the Puritan conviction that man lives a parlous life in a world ruined by centuries of Satan's craft and man's unfeeling abandonment of God, yet lives with his senses and his mind awake to the grace which God holds out betimes even to the chief of sinners; the other, the rationalist-empirical heritage, quite new it was, which derived from Bacon and was invigorated by Newton and Locke. - Introduction.