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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By Avihu Zakai. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xx, 348 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-691-09654-6.)

      Avihu Zakai explores how history was a major concern in Jonathan Edwards's thought. A History of the Work of Redemption (1774), originally sermons preached in 1739, became one of Edwards's most influential works. Many nineteenth-century evangelicals followed Edwards in placing spiritual awakenings at the center of history. Furthermore, Edwards had intended a far more ambitious work that would subsume all theology under the history of redemption. . . .

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