Jonathan Edwards, John Locke, and The Religious Affections

In this paper I want to take a look at John Locke’s influence on Jonathan Edwards’ The Religious Affections (1748). When Edwards was a teenage student at Yale College he came across a copy of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Some have thought that this reaction was a mere adolescent inf...

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Main Author: Helm, Paul 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Universiry [2016]
In: Jonathan Edwards studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-15
Further subjects:B Religion
B Post-reformation Studies
B Early Modern History
B History
B Philosophy
B American Religious History
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Summary:In this paper I want to take a look at John Locke’s influence on Jonathan Edwards’ The Religious Affections (1748). When Edwards was a teenage student at Yale College he came across a copy of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Some have thought that this reaction was a mere adolescent infatuation on Edwards’ part. But Edwards' first biographer, Samuel Hopkins, famously captured Jonathan's lifelong attitude to that book...
ISSN:2159-6875
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