Southern Edwardseans : the Southern Baptist legacy of Jonathan Edwards
"The founders and forerunners of the Southern Baptist Convention were fundamentally shaped by the thought of Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards and his theological successors. While Baptists in the antebellum South boasted a different theological pedigree than Presbyterians or Congregationalis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Göttingen :
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH,
[2022]
Göttingen: 2022 Göttingen: [2022] Göttingen : 2022 Göttingen: [2022] |
| Series: | New directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies ;
v. 8 New directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies ; volume 8 New directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies v. 8 |
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| Summary: | "The founders and forerunners of the Southern Baptist Convention were fundamentally shaped by the thought of Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards and his theological successors. While Baptists in the antebellum South boasted a different theological pedigree than Presbyterians or Congregationalists, and while they inhabited a Southern landscape unfamiliar to the bustling cities and tall forests of New England, they believed their similarities with Edwards far outweighed their differences. Like Edwards, these Baptists were revivalistic, Calvinistic, loosely confessional, and committed to practical divinity. In these four things, Southern Edwardseanism lived, moved, and had its being. In the nineteenth-century, when so many Presbyterians scoffed at Edwards's "innovation" and Methodists scorned his Calvinism, Baptists found in Edwards a man after their own heart. By 1845, at the first Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Edwardseans had laid the groundwork for a convention marked by the theology of Jonathan Edwards." |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 209 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 3525560516 9783525560518 |