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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
• Subtitle: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths
• Author: Gerald R. McDermott
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9780195132748
• ISBN: 0195132742
• ID: 04514925
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 566 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 164 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. May 2000

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