Contributor
Smolinski, Reiner.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2011, c2010.
Descriptionxix, 593 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Originally published: Cotton Mather and Biblia Americana. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
Note:Proceedings of a symposium held in Oct. 2008 at the University of Tübingen.
Note:Cotton Mather and "Biblia Americana," America's first Bible commentary: general introduction / Jan Stievermann -- The Glorious translation of an American Elijah: mourning Cotton Mather in 1728 / William Van Arragon -- The Abridging of Cotton Mather / E. Brooks Holifield -- New England Puritanism and the ecumenical background of Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Francis J. Bremer -- The World as parish: Cotton Mather, August Hermann Francke, and transatlantic religious networks / Oliver Scheiding -- Peter van Mastricht's Thoretico-practica theologia as an interpretative framework for Cotton Mather's work / Adriaan Neele -- Cotton Mather, the "Biblia Americana," and the Enlightenment / Winton U. Solberg -- Between biblical literalism and scientific inquiry: Cotton Mather's commentary on Jeremiah 8:7 / Michael Dopffel -- Cotton Mather and the invisible world / Paul Wise -- Historians as flower pickers and honey bees: Cotton Mather and the commonplace-book tradition of history / Rick Kennedy -- "Flee from idols": Cotton Mather and the historical books / Kenneth P. Minkema -- "Eager imitators of the Egyptian inventions": Cotton Mather's engagement with John Spencer and the debate about the pagan origin of the Mosaic laws, rites, and customs / Reiner Smolinski -- Euhemerism and ancient theology in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" / Harry Clark Maddux -- Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards on the Epistle of James: a comparative study / Stephen J. Stein -- The "Perfection of beauty": Cotton Mather's christological interpretation of the shechinah glory in the "Biblia Americana" and its theological contexts / Paul Silas Peterson -- The Eschatology of signs in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and Jonathan Edwards's case for the legibility of Providence / Michael P. Clark -- The Controversy of the present time: Arianism, William Whiston, and the development of Cotton Mather's late eschatology / David Komline -- Regaining paradise: Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" and the daughters of Eve / Helen K. Gelinas -- Hair down to there: nature, culture, and gender in Cotton Mather's social theology / Robert E. Brown -- The Genealogy of races and the problem of slavery in Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana."
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
