Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of
historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As
theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure
in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite
Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time and the
meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore
his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration,
Zakai considers Edwards's historical thought as a reaction, in
part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and
their growing disregard for theistic considerations.
Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards's insistence
that the process of history depends solely on God's redemptive
activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout
history, reading this doctrine as an answer to the threat posed to
the Christian theological teleology of history by the early modern
emergence of a secular conception of history and the modern
legitimation of historical time. In response to the Enlightenment
refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis
on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God's preeminence
within the order of time. Against the de-Christianization of
history and removal of divine power from the historical process, he
sought to re-enthrone God as the author and lord of history--and
thus to re-enchant the historical world.
Placing Edwards's historical thought in its broadest context,
this book will be welcomed by those who study early modern history,
American history, or religious culture and experience in
America.
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