The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics (Philosophy of Religion)

ISBN: 025331609X

Author: Daniel, Stephen H.

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"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." -Peirce Project Newsletter" . . . a new foundation for the study of Edwards's thought and rhetoric." -Wilson H. Kimnach". . . this is a superb and important book, one that deserves to be widely read and vigorously discussed." -Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society". . . Daniel's work ought . . . to be required reading among the Edwards guild, for it provides perhaps the best philosophical introduction in English to Edward's major writings." -Church HistoryDrawing on the semiotic work of Peirce, Foucault, and Kristeva, Stephen Daniel shows how the Renaissance theory of signatures provides Edwards and his contemporaries with a powerful alternative to the ideas of Descartes and Locke.