Biblical Exegesis
Biblical Exegesis
Edwards's exclusively exegetical works fill nearly five volumes in the Yale edition. As an eighteenth-century exegete, his approach may be distinguished from the Enlightenment thinkers, Roman Catholics, and radical evangelicals. Central to Edwards's approach to Biblical interpretation was the “sense of the heart.” The same divine illumination that caused the saint to perceive the beauty of God amid the wonders of the natural world also caused the saint to see both the surface level and the deeper meanings contained in holy writ. Without abandoning the foundational role of the literal sense, he showed a tilt toward the spiritual sense. Identifying the spiritual sense of scripture ultimately allows the interpreter to place all the pieces of the Old and New Testaments into a coherent whole.
Keywords: exegesis, types, typology, allegory, sense of the heart, four senses, spiritual sense, illumination
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
