内容简介
Long recognized as ‘America’s theologian’, Jonathan Edwards
(1703–1758) is seen as instrumental in the Great Awakening of the
1740s that gripped much of New England and that laid the groundwork
for an American Protestant religious identity. This Cambridge
Companion offers a general, comprehensive introduction to Jonathan
Edwards and examines his life and works from various disciplinary
perspectives including history, literature, theology, religious
studies, and philosophy. The book consists of seventeen chapters
written by leading religious scholars, historians and literary
critics on Edwards’ life, work, and legacy. The Companion will be
an invaluable aid to teachers and scholars and will be imminently
accessible to those just encountering Edwards for the first
time.
作者简介
Stephen J. Stein (born March 22, 1940) holds the Ph.D. from
Yale University. He has served as Chair of the Department of
Religious Studies and also as Director of the American Studies
Program at Indiana University where he taught for 35 years. He
retired in May 2005. He was named Chancellor’s Professor in 1995.
In 1994 he was the President of the American Society of Church
History. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Tracy Sonneborn Award
for Excellence in Teaching and Research. He has been the recipient
of numerous grants, including two research fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the editor of three
volumes in the Yale Edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards:
Apocalyptic Writings (1977), Notes on Scripture (1998), and The
‘Blank Bible’ (forthcoming 2006). His volume, The Shaker Experience
in America: A History of the United Society of Believers (Yale
Press, 1992) was awarded the Philip Schaff Prize by the American
Society of Church History. His research interests have focused
heavily on eighteenth-century colonial American religious history,
but his research publications also span the broad topic of
apocalyptic and millennial studies as well as the study of New
Religious Movements. He has published articles in such journals as
Church History, Harvard Theological Review, William and Mary
Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Early American Literature, Filson
Club History Quarterly, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society, Journal of the Early Republic, Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society, Communal Societies, American Quarterly,
Religion and American Culture, etc., etc.. Stein’s volume on the
Shakers is widely regarded as the definitive history of that
religious community; it spans more than two centuries of Shaker
experience. His editorial work with the Edwards Edition has opened
an area of scholarship, namely, Edwards’s biblical writings, that
had received very little scholarly attention prior to his work.
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