- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources
- 1 Overture to a Symphony
- 2 Edwards: A Theological Life
- 3 Edwards's Intellectual Context
- 4 Edwards's Spirituality
- 5 The Question of Development: Did Edwards Change?
- 28 The Church
- 29 Edwards on (and in) the Ministry
- 30 The Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper
- 31 The Voice of the Great God: A Theology of Preaching
- 32 Public Theology, Society, and America
- 33 True Virtue, Christian Love, and Ethical Theory
- 34 Edwards on (and in) Mission
- 35 Eschatology
- 36 Christianity and Other Religions
- 37 Selective Readings: Edwards and the New Divinity
- 38 Mixed Reactions: Princeton and Andover Seminaries and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- 39 New Beginnings: The Twentieth-Century Recovery of Jonathan Edwards
- 40 Interpretations I
- 41 Interpretations II
- 42 Interpretations III: Edwards and the Revival Tradition
- 43 Interpretations IV: Edwards and the Catholic and Orthodox Traditions
- 44 Interpretations V: Edwards and Contemporary Theology
- 45 Conclusion: Edwards as a Theological Bridge
- Index
Edwards on (and in) Mission
Edwards on (and in) Mission
- Chapter:
- (p.549) 34 Edwards on (and in) Mission
- Source:
- The Theology of Jonathan Edwards
- Author(s):
Michael J. McClymond
Gerald R. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Missions for Edwards were essential to the history of revival, which was the main story line in the history of humanity itself, all of which Edwards included in what he called the history of redemption. This chapter delineates Edwards's conception of mission, relates how missions generally functioned in Edwards's history of redemption, and then looks more closely at Edwards's own mission to Native Americans. At the end, it comments briefly on the importance of Edwards's mission to Protestant missions in later centuries.
Keywords: missions, Native Americans, history of redemption, revival, Protestant missions
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources
- 1 Overture to a Symphony
- 2 Edwards: A Theological Life
- 3 Edwards's Intellectual Context
- 4 Edwards's Spirituality
- 5 The Question of Development: Did Edwards Change?
- 28 The Church
- 29 Edwards on (and in) the Ministry
- 30 The Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper
- 31 The Voice of the Great God: A Theology of Preaching
- 32 Public Theology, Society, and America
- 33 True Virtue, Christian Love, and Ethical Theory
- 34 Edwards on (and in) Mission
- 35 Eschatology
- 36 Christianity and Other Religions
- 37 Selective Readings: Edwards and the New Divinity
- 38 Mixed Reactions: Princeton and Andover Seminaries and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- 39 New Beginnings: The Twentieth-Century Recovery of Jonathan Edwards
- 40 Interpretations I
- 41 Interpretations II
- 42 Interpretations III: Edwards and the Revival Tradition
- 43 Interpretations IV: Edwards and the Catholic and Orthodox Traditions
- 44 Interpretations V: Edwards and Contemporary Theology
- 45 Conclusion: Edwards as a Theological Bridge
- Index