Synopses & Reviews
"In this challenging work, Daniel draws on the semiotics of Foucault, Kristeva, and Peirce to explore Edwards's typology.... elegant and important... " --Library Journal
"A provocative and at times brilliant reinterpretation of Edwards... " --Religious Studies Review
"... a comprehensive analysis and redefinition of the thought of Jonathan Edwards."
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
About the Author
STEPHEN H. DANIEL is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University and author of Myth and Modern Philosophy and John Toland: His Methods, Manners, and Mind.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I. The Prospect of Semiotics
The Invitation of Typology
The Semiotic Context
The Renaissance Episteme
II. The Discourse of Typology
The Vocabulary of Nature
Two Texts: Nature and Scripture
The Nature of Typological Relations
III. The Logics of Creation
The Stoicism of Ramist Logic
The Ontology of Supposition
Corporeality and Mentality as Rhetorical Placement
IV. The Trinity and Creation
The Logic of the Trinity
Why God Creates
V. The Ontology of Original Sin
The Fall
The Imputation of Subjectivity
VI. Freedom and Moral Agency
Intentionality of Will as Philosophical Necessity
Divine Decrees and Foreknowledge
Virtue as Consent
VII. The Knowledge of Beauty
Consent
Knowledge and Grace
Concluding Remarks: The Porpriety of Christ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX