The history of Christianity reveals an incessant struggle between Calvinistic and Arminian thought. This conflict often finds a focus in how man's depravity affects his responsibility to God. If because of the Fall man is unable to respond to God, how then can God hold him respo…
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Jonathan Edwards has proven to be one of the most influential figures in eighteenth-century Christianity and beyond. Edwards, situated in a rapidly changing society, labored to maintain his Christian heritage. He emerged as a biblical, exegetical, and philosophical theologian wh…
This thesis examines the life and work of Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833), America’s first ordained Black minister. Following in the tradition of those First Great Awakening preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, Haynes achieved notoriety in New England for his revi…
Jonathan Edwards scholarship has been divided in recent years on the correct interpretation of his work. Scholars like Sang Hyun Lee and Amy Plantinga Pauw maintain that Edwards used a radically new dispositional ontology to understand the fundamental realities of nature. Oliver…
This dissertation contributes to the study of American Christianity by tracing the apocalyptic thought of New England evangelical Calvinism from Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) to Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). Covering the period of the First Great Awakening in the eighteenth century …
In an age of cultural and religious pluralism, relating Christian faith and culture becomes an increasingly pressing problem. Efforts to relate Christian faith and culture have relied predominantly on sociological and political categories of thought, which have framed the person…