Love, Glory, and Deification: Beauty and Trinity in Jonathan Edwards’s The End of Creation
Jonathan Edwards’s dissertation, The End of Creation, explored God’s goals in creating the world and acting thereafter. Using scriptural texts and a rich doctrine of divine beauty, Edwards argued that God is theocentric and motivated by his own glory. This raises the question of how this is compatib...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-352 |
| Further subjects: | B
Deification
B Beauty B Trinity B Jonathan Edwards B Love B Theosis B Aesthetics B Glory |
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| Summary: | Jonathan Edwards’s dissertation, The End of Creation, explored God’s goals in creating the world and acting thereafter. Using scriptural texts and a rich doctrine of divine beauty, Edwards argued that God is theocentric and motivated by his own glory. This raises the question of how this is compatible with divine love for humanity. To address this question, Edwards draws on his understanding of Trinity and theological aesthetics. Through this, Edwards develops a stronger doctrine of deification than elsewhere in his corpus, allowing him to unify God’s self-love with love for creature, but weakening the God-creature distinction. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10077 |
