Walter J. Schultz, Jonathan Edwards’ Concerning the End for which God Created the World: Exposition, Analysis, and Philosophical Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357
Author(s):  
James C. McGlothlin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
The World ◽  
World Exposition

Jonathan Edwards on the Sense of the Heart

1948 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Miller
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
American Mind ◽  
Freedom Of The Will ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Work ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mind

The reputation of Jonathan Edwards, impressive though it is, rests upon only a fragmentary representation of the range or profundity of his thinking. Harassed by events and controversies, he was forced repeatedly to put aside his real work and to expend his energies in turning out sermons, defenses of the Great Awakening, or theological polemics. Only two of his published books (and those the shortest), The Nature of True Virtue and The End for which God Created the World, were not ad hoc productions. Even The Freedom of the Will is primarily a dispute, aimed at silencing the enemy rather than expounding a philosophy. He died with his Summa still a mass of notes in a bundle of home-made folios, the handwriting barely legible. The conventional estimate that Edwards was America's greatest metaphysical genius is a tribute to his youthful Notes on the Mind — which were a crude forecast of the system at which he labored for the rest of his days — and to a few incidental flashes that illumine his forensic argumentations. The American mind is immeasurably the poorer that he was not permitted to bring into order his accumulated meditations.

JONATHAN EDWARDS IN HIS TIME, AND IN OURS

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-398
Author(s):  
DAVID D. HALL
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
The World

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002)Avihu Zakai, Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)Amy Plantinga Pauw, “The Supreme Harmony of All”: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)We play tricks on the past, but the past also plays tricks on us. We try to fool the past by reconstructing it in our own image, imposing order and significance on the untidy sources we depend upon. The trick the past plays on us is to remain defiantly strange, ever able to expose what it is that our gestures of sympathetic reconstruction have altered, ignored, or suppressed.

scholarly journals A Mega-event Approach to Glurbanization: Insights from Expo 2010, Shanghai

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingyue LI
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
The World ◽  
World Expo ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
World Exposition

This paper contributes to an in-depth understanding of how the mega-event contributes glurbanization of entrepreneurial city through a case study of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. It argues that spatial-related transformation is central to mega-event approach to glurbanization yet the soft power building is uncertain. It implies that the domestic impacts of mega-events are likely to be more profound than their global influences. This corresponds to the capitalist transformation from Fordist-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, in which mega-events such as Olympic Games and World Exposition have increasingly been incorporated into urban development plan to boost urban agenda. Although the profile of world fairs is reduced and does not have the international impacts that they used to have, Shanghai Expo 2010, the first Expo ever held in a developing country, is pinned hope on as the “Turn to Save the World Expo” and is unusually ambitious to bring opportunities in urban transformation. With a well-developed framework of glurbanization entailed by entrepreneurial city, this research enriches glurbanization theory by a thorough examination of Shanghai Expo. It finds that Expo-led landscape reconfiguration, spatial restructuring, and new sources provision effectively transformed Shanghai, propelling glurbanization in diminutive spatial scale. Yet, it remains powerless to impress the world as the voice of domestic propaganda is limited in the Western mainstream media. In all, the Expo case well exemplifies the power of mega-event approach to advancing local agenda, especially in spatial transformation per se, as well as its constraints in (re)shaping a global discourse. 

The Beauty of the Redemption of the World: The Theological Aesthetics of Maximus the Confessor and Jonathan Edwards

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Abstract Data ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, in hisHerrlichkeit, laments the eclipse of the aesthetic in modern theology, noting that thebeingof a Christian is itself a thing of beauty inscribed by the grace of God; that is, it is a form of existence “opened up to us by the God-Man's act of redemption. . . . God's incarnation perfects the whole ontology and aesthetics of created being.” Von Balthasar traces the loss of the aesthetic dimension from Protestant theology to the Reformation principle ofsola scriptura, which seeks to abstract “data” of scriptural revelation into objective formulae. This approach leads to the historicism of Hegel, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Barth, effectively removing the meditative gaze from theological contemplation. Von Balthasar's ultimate argument is that it is necessary for Protestant theology to revive the Alexandrian tradition in order to recover the “transcendent principle of beauty as derived from and most proper to God,” which is to be “for us the very apex and archetype of beauty in the world.”

Research on Evaluation of the Landscape and its Functions in Houtan Park of the World Exposition 2010 Shanghai, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 4061-4073
Author(s):  
Yin Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yue Dong ◽  
Pei Min He ◽  
Kong Jian Yu ◽  
Jing Jin
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Class I ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Class V ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
World Exposition ◽  
Inferior Class

Construction of urban waterscape parks based on ecological concepts and functions is becoming the tendency of modern urban parks. Unfortunately, there are no suitable evaluation systems for these parks. This study establishes a comprehensive evaluation system for a landscape and its functions via the analytic hierarchy process and the comprehensive index method. The evaluation model consisted of 3 evaluation indexes and 23 evaluation indicators relevant to the landscape characteristics of Houtan Park of the World Exposition 2010 Shanghai, China. The evaluation indicators were monitored from 2006 to 2010, and the results of the investigation led to the following conclusions: the park fulfills a range of desirable functions, and ranks high in aesthetic, economic and societal values; ecological functions were applied well within the landscape, and following ecological restoration and the construction of a functional aquatic ecosystem, the water quality of Houtan River has been continuously purified from inferior class V~ class V to class III~ class I range, while the heavy metals in the sediment were improved from inferior class V~ class V to class I; the biodiversity was improved from 0.72 into 1.49; and the results for other indicators were improved overall. In general, the comprehensive score of the evaluation increased from 1.227 to 4.341. Although minor problems remain to be solved, the results indicate that the design concept and construction methods applied in Houtan Park are well applicable to sustainable landscapes, and the evaluation system as a whole can be extended and applied in similar cases.

From Theology to a Science of Religions: Jonathan Edwards and William James on Religious Affections

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Proudfoot
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
William James ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
The World ◽  
Growth Of Knowledge ◽  
The Mind

In a volume of speeches published in 1799 and addressed to those whom he called “the cultured among the despisers of religion,” Friedrich Schleiermacher offered a description of religious experience, doctrine, and practice designed to convince his readers that the conventional pieties they deplored in the churches and synagogues were not genuine religion. Instead, true religion was the sense and taste for the infinite that they themselves were cultivating in poetry, criticism, conversation, and other aesthetic pursuits of their romantic circle. He was especially concerned to allay their fears that religious beliefs might conflict with the growth of knowledge about the world of nature or the mind. “Religion,” he wrote, “leaves you, your physics and … also your psychology untouched.”

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