@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004352,
 author = {Sweeney, Douglas A.},
 issue = {48},
 journal = {人文科学研究（キリスト教と文化）, Humanities: Christianity and Culture},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Many have argued that Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is the most influential 
thinker in U.S. American history. Yet few have understood the thoroughly biblical 
foundations of his early-modern worldview. This article explores Edwards’ biblical 
understanding of the history of the world, centered as it was on the history of the 
redemption of the world in Jesus Christ, the crux of his philosophy of history. It 
discusses Edwards’ views of many relevant biblical texts, including his comments on 
the Apocalypse (on which he kept a notebook) and its bearing on his Christian 
historiography. Nowhere is the difference between Edwards’ metaphysical and spiritual 
view of the world and later secular perspectives more apparent—even striking—than in 
his biblical understanding of the shape of cosmic history. When it came to the nature of 
history he was even more spiritual, supernatural—indeed apocalyptic—than his peers.},
 pages = {13--30},
 title = {The Grand Design of God: Edwards’ Biblical Understanding of the Shape of World History},
 year = {2016}
}