A Preliminary Analysis Of Jonathan Edwards's Theological Thinking

The main target of this paper is a well-known North America's religious scientist Jonathan Edwards's theological thinking in 18th century, in the second half of the 17th century,with the colony economy development, the modern science progress and the initiation rational ideological trend unceasing impact, North America society's independent ideological mode can also be breeded.Edwards was precisely in which this turbulence transformed, While devoted God enterprise's seeks even more is being suitable with the colony own Christ belief theory.His life elaborated including the Christ theology ,natural sciences, the philosophy, ethics and so on, but the theology research is outstanding. This article was to anlyze inspecting the influence of Edwards's theology thinking in North America social.As a colony puritan's pastor, the leader of theologian and puritanism, Edwards has inherited the traditional Christ theological theory, received the 16th century Reformation puritanism calvinism , unified North America own actual and developed to establish the colony own characteristic theological theory. Firstly it goes to the affects factor which Edwards theological thinking forms, through with the traditional Christ theology, comparative analysis the puritanism Calvin doctrine and the first generation theologian thinking of the colony, promulgateing the Edwards theological thinking the important source, simultaneously unified the late of 17th century's - the middle of 18th century's the reality of North American social development, to present the mature background Edwards's theological thinking ;Next,to elaborate the Edwards theological thinking and pay attention to annotate to the traditional puritanism calvinism about the traditional theology viewpoint including the modern scientific rational fusion, so that demonstrating the chief feature of Edwards's theological thinking; Finally, changes Edwards's theological thinking to North America religious belief and the influence of colony society,then it will excavate Edwards's theological elaboration to the American thinking culture domain exploration and the contribution.