Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods —— Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths

----- 乔纳森·爱德华兹面对众神：基督教神学，启蒙宗教和非基督教信仰

ISBN: 9780195132748 出版年：2000 页码：258 McDermott, Gerald R Oxford University Press

It has long been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - a doctrine that denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. In this book, Gerald McDermott shows that Edwards's real target was a larger and more influential one, namely deism - the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation. To Edwards's mind, deism was the logical conclusion of most, if not all, schemes of divinity that appropriated Enlightenment tenets. McDermott argues that Edwards was an inclusivist who came to realize that salvation was open to peoples beyond the hearing of the Christian gospel.