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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154334903321

Autore

Reklis Kathryn

Titolo

Theology and the kinesthetic imagination : Jonathan Edwards and the making of modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780199373086 (ebook) :

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

230/.58092

Soggetti

Great Awakening - 18th century

Civilization, Modern

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

United States Church history To 1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged as candidates to reorient theological reflection by subverting the fragmentation of the self wrought by Western Enlightenment philosophies and the political and economic regimes those philosophies fund. Reklis returns to a particular moment in the history of Protestant Christianity and its collusion with the creation of this modern, rational subject: the publicly rehearsed theological debates regarding the series of 18th century Atlantic world revivals known as the Great Awakening and the work of pro-revivalist theologian Jonathan Edwards.