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Ausgabe:

April/2023

Spalte:

367-368

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Kirchengeschichte: Neuzeit

Autor/Hrsg.:

Todd, Obbie Tyler

Titel/Untertitel:

Southern Edwardseans. The Southern Baptist Legacy of Jonathan Edwards.

Verlag:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022. 209 S. = New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies, 8. Geb. EUR 120,00. ISBN 9783525560518.

Rezensent:

Edward George Manger

Over the past decades the veritable tide of books, articles, and conferences on the great American theologian and pastor Jonathan Edwards has not abated. In the midst of this consistent flow of work, one would imagine that genuine avenues for discovery would be hard to find.

Obbie Tyler Todd has managed such a feat. He clearly demarcates a lacuna in Edwardsean studies which he then ably and admirably fills over the rest of the book. T. demonstrates the remarkable influence of Edwards and his theology on eighteenth and nineteenth century Southern Baptists showing that key figures and thinkers in that tradition were reading Edwards, discussing his ideas and consciously saw themselves as continuing elements of his theology. This has been completely overlooked by traditional ...


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