Winter 2015/Pasadena

ST584

Crisp

ST584: JONATHAN EDWARDS (4 Units: 160 hours). Oliver Crisp.


DESCRIPTION: This is a 6-unit seminar designed for PhD and ThM students in the CATS program, also offered at the 500-level as a 4-unit course open to five MDiv/MA students by written permission. It offers a critical engagement with key themes and texts in the theology of the New England Puritan theologian, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758).

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students completing this course will have demonstrated their ability to (1) analyze critically and assess the contribution of Jonathan Edwards to theology; (2) offer a reasoned response to various proposals concerning the nature of Edwards’ project offered in the secondary literature; and (3) begin to formulate their own systematic/constructive views on key theological themes in dialogue with Edwards’s work.

COURSE FORMAT: This is a seminar-style class. This class meets once per week for three-hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.

REQUIRED READING: 1,000 pages of required reading.

Crisp, Oliver D. Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0199755295, Pub. Price $69.00 [192 pp.].

Lee, Sang. The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, Expanded Edition. Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0691049427, Pub. Price $42.00 [268 pp.].

A Jonathan Edwards Reader, eds. Minkema et. al. Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN: 978-0300098389, Pub. Price $16.95 [325 pp.].

The standard critical edition of Edwards’s works are published in 26 Volumes by Yale University Press (1957-2006). An open-access expanded edition of the Yale Works can be found on-line at http://edwards.yale.edu/. This contains all 26 letter press volumes and a wealth of other (previously unpublished) material. Some of this material is collected in the Reader, listed below

In addition, we will be reading the following works from the online works:

- Philosophical Writings, “Of Being,” “Of Atoms.” (Vol. 6) [17 pp.]

- The “Miscellanies” No. 1263 (Vol. 23) [11 pp.]

- The Two Dissertations (The End of Creation and True Virtue) (Vol. 8) [222 pp.]

- Discourse on the Trinity (Vol. 21) [36 pp.]

- “Justification by Faith” (Vol. 19) [100 pp.]

Students are also expected to consult e-resources like Jonathan Edwards Studies, an open-access peer-reviewed journal, and articles via electronic databases like JStoR. William Wainwright’s entry “Jonathan Edwards” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an excellent introduction. It is located at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/edwards/

RECOMMENDED READING:

** Bombaro, John J. Jonathan Edwards’ Vision of Reality: The Relationship of God to the World, Redemption History, and the Reprobate. Wipf & Stock, 2011. ISBN: 978-1610974561, Pub. Price $38.00

* Caldwell III, Robert. Communion in the Spirit: The Holy Spirit as the Bond of Union in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Wipf & Stock, 2007. ISBN: 978-1556352386, Pub. Price $27.00.

* Cherry, Conrad. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, A Reappraisal. University of Indiana Press, 1966. ISBN: 978-0253205599, Pub. Price $16.95.

** Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew. Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards’s Ethics. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0271048451, Pub. Price $34.95.

** Crisp, Oliver D. Jonathan Edwards and the Metaphysics of Sin. Ashgate, 2005. ISBN: 978-0754638964, ***OUT OF PRINT.

* _____________ Jonathan Edwards Among the Theologians. Eerdmans, 2015. [Circulated in mss. form upon request.]

** _____________ and Sweeney, Douglas A. eds. After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of The New England Theology. Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0199756308, Pub. Price $36.95.

** Elwood, Douglas. The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards. University of Columbia Press, 1960. ***OUT OF PRINT.

** Fiering, Norman. Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought in its British Context. University of North Carolina Press, 1981. ISBN: 978-1597526180, Pub. Price $39.00.

** Guelzo, Allen C. Edwards on The Will: A Century of Theological Debate. Wipf and Stock, 2007. ISBN: 978-1556357176, Pub. Price $40.00.

* Gura, Philip. Jonathan Edwards, America’s Evangelical. Hill and Wang, 2005. ISBN: 978-0809061969, Pub. Price $15.00.

** Hatch, Nathan and Stout, Harry eds., Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience. Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN: 978-0195 Pub. Price $63.00.

** Helm, Paul and Crisp, Oliver D. eds., Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian. Ashgate, 2003. ISBN: 978-0754631637, ***OUT OF PRINT.

** Holbrook, Clyde A. The Ethics of Jonathan Edwards: Morality and Aesthetics. University of Michigan Press, 1973. ISBN: 978-0472448005, ***OUT OF PRINT.

** Holmes, Stephen R. God of Grace and God of Glory, An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. T&T Clark, 2000. ISBN: 978-0802839145, ***OUT OF PRINT.

** Lee, Sang. The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, Expanded Edition. Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0691049427, Pub. Price $42.00

** Lee, Sang Hyun ed. The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0691121086, Pub. Price $65.00

* Marsden, George. Jonathan Edwards, A Life. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 978-0300105964, Pub. Price $24.00.

** McClymond, Michael J. Encounters with God, An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. OUP, 1998. ISBN: 978-0195118223, Pub. Price $125.00.

* McClymond, Michael J. and McDermott, Gerald. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0199791606, Pub. Price $69.00.

* McDermott, Gerald R. ed. Understanding Jonathan Edwards, An Introduction to America’s Theologian. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0195373448, Pub. Price $26.95.

** Miller, Perry. Jonathan Edwards. William Sloane, 1949. ISBN: 978-0803283077, *** OUT OF PRINT.

** Morris, William S. The Young Jonathan Edwards: A Reconstruction. Wipf & Stock, 2005. ISBN: 978-1597523615, Pub. Price $60.00.

* Plantinga Pauw, Amy. The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards Eerdmans, 2006. ISBN: 978-0802849847, Pub. Price $24.50.

** Rea, Michael “The Metaphysics of Sin” in Dean Zimmerman and Peter van Inwagen, eds. Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 319-356. Also available at: http://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/Metaphysics%20of%20Original%20Sin%20_final_.pdf

** Schweitzer, Don ed. Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Lee. Peter Lang, 2010. ISBN: 978-1433110146, Pub. Price $96.95.

* Schweitzer, William H. God is a Communicative Being: Divine Communicativeness and Harmony in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards. T&T Clark, 2012. ISBN: 978-056719227, Pub. Price $120.00.

* Smith, John E. Jonathan Edwards, Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher. Chapman, 1992. ISBN: 978-0268011925, ***OUT OF PRINT.

* Stein, Stephen J. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards. Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0521618052, Pub. Price $35.99.

** Strobel, Kyle C. Jonathan Edwards’s Theology: A Reinterpretation. T&T Clark, 2012. ISBN: 978-0567655752, Pub. Price $39.95.

* Studebaker, Steven M. and Caldwell III, Robert W. The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards: Text, Context and Application. Ashgate, 2012. ISBN: 978-1409405726, Pub. Price $119.95.

* Sweeney, Douglas A. Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model of Faith and Thought. IVP Academic, 2009. ***OUT OF PRINT.

** Tracy, Patricia J. Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth Century Northampton. Hill and Wang, 1980. ISBN: 978-1597526128, Pub. Price $28.00.

* Wainwright, William J.“Original Sin” in Thomas V. Morris, ed. Philosophy and the Christian Faith. University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. ISBN: 978-0877847120, Pub. Price $24.00.

** Wilson, Stephen A. Virtue Reformed: Re-reading Jonathan Edwards’ Ethics. E. J. Brill, 2005. ISBN: 978-9004143005, ***OUT OF PRINT.

* Winslow, Ola. Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758. Collier Books, 1940. ISBN: 978-0374986841, ***OUT OF PRINT.

* denotes introductory to intermediate texts

** denotes intermediate to advanced texts

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT: All members of the seminar are expected to have studied the set readings for the week. Each week designated members of the seminar will introduce discussion, giving a brief background of the readings, summarizing the key issues, and offering a reasoned response.

  1. 1,000 pages of required reading. [65 hours].

  2. Completion of two 5-page critical reflections on key primary texts (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2]. [20 hours].

  3. Presentation and submission of a 20 minute seminar paper [2,500 words] (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2]. [15 hours].

  4. A research essay on an assigned topic [3,000 words] (40%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3]. [30 hours].

PREREQUISITES: At the master’s level, three of the following MDiv core requirements: STA, STB, STC, PHIL, and written permission of the professor.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the TH4 requirement in the 120 MDiv program.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.


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