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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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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... |
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| ISSN: | 2159-6875 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jonathan Edwards studies
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