The problem of the dissertation encompasses three discrete issues: What are the eschatological systems of Samuel Willard, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards? How do their respective eschatologies compare? The third issue results from the preceding two questions and is formed by two proposals. One, in contrast to the view that Puritans are avid chiliasts and that Puritan theology itself has a "millenarian core," the study suggests that while this generally true there are deviations to the rule. Two, the uniformity implied in such assessments fails to observe the diversity among puritan eschatologies. These proposals add a measure of nuance to some interpretations of Puritan eschatology. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2870. / Major Professor: Leo Sandon, Jr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77250 |
| Contributors | Reule, Tracy Dean., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 217 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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