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Studies of Jonathan Edwards by Michael McClymond

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention h... more This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

Oxford Handbook of Relgion and Emotion, 2008

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)—pastor, philosopher, theologian, and Calvinist saint—was a man of de... more Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)—pastor, philosopher, theologian, and Calvinist saint—was a man of deep piety and a meticulous observer of others' spiritual experiences. He devoted much of his life to the analysis and interpretation of religious emotions, which he called “affections.” Today, most scholars regard Edwards as the greatest theologian in American history, and his writings have had vast influence in both church and academy. Edwards might be dubbed the patron saint of religious revival and revivalism. Like his Puritan predecessors, Edwards saw a dichotomy between true, God-given, and grace-filled religion on the one hand and false, counterfeit, hypocritical, and non-gracious religion on the other. This article examines Edwards's views on religious emotions such as understanding, inclination, affection, passion, and love. It also discusses his treatment of the “new sense,” also referred to as the “spiritual sense,” or “sense of the heart.” Moreover, Edwards's philosophy regarding enthusiasm, visions, and the ambiguous status of imagination is discussed. The article concludes by considering Edwards's legacy concerning religion and emotion.

Journal of Religion, 1997

World Christianity today is quite different from what it was a century ago. Roman Catholics, Evan... more World Christianity today is quite different from what it was a century ago. Roman Catholics, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America will shape the twenty-first-century theological agenda. A new agenda needs to be scripturally based, open to vibrant, Spirit-led experience, engaged with non-Christian religions, and ecumenically fruitful. Surprising as it may sound, the writings of eighteenth-century thinker Jonathan Edwards offer an excellent point of departure. He functions as a bridge figure in four ways—between Catholics and Protestants, the Christian East and West, Charismatics and non-Charismatics, and liberals and conservatives.

Biblical Studies by Michael McClymond

This article represents a first effort at characterizing the theological and interpretive functio... more This article represents a first effort at characterizing the theological and interpretive functions of biblical annotations in modern Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles. It argues that annotations are not simply subservient to their texts, but typically express a theological agenda. This became clear in the battle over annotations among Protestants and between Protestants and Catholics during the 16th and 17th centuries. It is also evident in the present examination of both Bishop Richard Challoner's annotations (1750) to the English- language Catholic Bible and the notes in the Scofield Reference Bible (1909). The article concludes with a discussion of five basic functions that biblical annotations serve.

Christian Theology and Christian Spirituality by Michael McClymond

Oxford Handbook of Relgion and Emotion, 2008

Journal of Religion, 1997

In Oxford Handbook of Presbyterianism, 2019

This essay explores the unity and diversity of global charismatic ministries

Perspective in Pentecostal Eschatologies, 2010

The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, 2010

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This definitive, two-volume encyclopedia is the first academic reference work devoted specificall... more This definitive, two-volume encyclopedia is the first academic reference work devoted specifically to religious revivals in North America. Incorporating the work of 120 scholars, the first volume contains an A-Z set of 228 articles touching on people (e.g., Billy Graham, Aimee Semple McPherson, Francisco Olazabal, etc.), revival events (the Great Awakening, Cane Ridge, the Azusa Street Revival), religious denominations or groups associated with revivals (Methodists, Pentecostals, Primitive Baptists), revival practices (the altar call, bodily manifestations, preaching, praying, speaking in tongues), and themes in revivals (confession of sins, ecstasy, eschatology, foreign missions, material culture, money and revivals). The second volume includes a documentary history of religious revivals from 1527 to 2005, with editorial introductions and selected passages from 121 primary texts—some published here for the first time—and a general bibliography of about 5000 books, articles, and dissertations.

Religious revivals have had a tremendous impact on American society throughout its history. During the First Great Awakening (1739-45), waves of religious fervor spread throughout the American colonies. The Second Great Awakening (1795-1835) witnessed the expansion of existing denominations (e.g., Baptist and Methodist) and the foundation of new denominations such as the Disciples of Christ, the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Seventh-day Adventists. These revivalist groups flowered and played a critical role in such cultural and historical movements as abolitionism, temperance, and the struggle for women's rights. More recently, the growing strength of Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism during the late 20th Century may be yet another great awakening that has had—and will have—a profound impact on political, social, and cultural developments. [publishers description]

Embodying the Spirit: New Perspective on North American Revivalism , 2004

The Journal of Presbyterian History, 2012

In The God Who Saves (2016), David Congdon seeks an elusive synthesis of Karl Barth’s dogmatics a... more In The God Who Saves (2016), David Congdon seeks an elusive synthesis of Karl Barth’s dogmatics and Rudolf Bultmann’s hermeneutics, by integrating Bultmann’s insistence on the concrete historicity of individual human experience with Barth’s stress on the universal salvific significance of Christ. Despite his “demetaphysicizing” rejection of a substantive God and a Chalcedonian Christ, Congdon propounds universal salvation based on a universal “cocrucifixion” with Christ that may occur in nonreligious experience (e.g., in viewing artwork, watching a baby’s birth, etc.). His intricate argument shows little theological coherence, and a lack of grounding in scriptural exegesis or empirical observation.

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 2011

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2010

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, 2011

Human Sexuality: Spirit-Filled Perspectives, ed. Wonsuk Ma, 2019