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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. Religion in America
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It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments 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 came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.
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McDermott has done a thorough and painstaking job in piecing together Edwards's views on non-Christian religion ... a valuable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century theology * Journal of Theological Studies *