COTTON MATHER, JONATHAN EDWARDS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL EXEGESIS IN EARLY EVANGELICALISM
Scholars such as W. R. Ward, and more recently Bruce Hindmarsh,¹ have identified distinguishing features of an “early” phase of evangelicalism, running roughly from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century, that set it off from “modern” evangelicalism. Extending this effort to define an e...
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| Published in | The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism pp. 182 - 199 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University Park, USA
Penn State University Press
29.06.2022
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| Summary: | Scholars such as W. R. Ward, and more recently Bruce Hindmarsh,¹ have identified distinguishing features of an “early” phase of evangelicalism, running roughly from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century, that set it off from “modern” evangelicalism. Extending this effort to define an early evangelicalism, other scholars have begun examining biblical interpretation among European and American figures in that long century. Are there features of exegesis that are a subset of the characteristics of early evangelicalism generally, or are there features that fall outside the circumference? If the latter, would that lead us to shift the defining characteristics of |
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| DOI: | 10.1515/9780271093215-013 |