Jonathan Edwards's Interpretation of Revelation 4:1-8:1University Press of America, 2004 - 357 pagina's The Bible was at the center of Jonathan Edwards' intellectual and ministerial life. As an eighteenth century theologian-pastor, the Scriptures were the focus of his work and the perspective through which he viewed his world. Edwards had a particular interest in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, devoting a notebook to the collection of observations and thoughts from his reading and reflection. This book examines Edwards' interpretation of Revelation 4-8 as seen in his working notebooks and theological treatises and sermons and then compares his views with some of his major contemporary biblical interpreters. Edwards employs a typological hermeneutical method, arguing that typology is the language God uses to communicate and this language can be learned both from explicit typology in Scripture as well as from the biblical author's implicit use of types. In the application of this typological hermeneutics, Edwards not only interprets all of Scripture Christologically, but also views the natural world and secular history as types of Christ. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION | 37 |
JONATHAN EDWARDS ON REVELATION 4 | 89 |
JONATHAN EDWARDS ON REVELATION 5 | 137 |
JONATHAN EDWARDS ON REVELATION 6 | 207 |
JONATHAN EDWARDS ON REVELATION 7181 | 251 |
CONCLUSION | 281 |
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