Titlebook: Reason and Faith at Early Princeton: Piety and the Knowledge of God; Owen Anderson Book 2014 Owen Anderson 2014 Princeton.Reason.Religion.

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The Fall and Original Sin,nown through his works is in tension with the teaching of the beatific vision and this tension became evident at Princeton. The later Protestant debates about the inerrancy of the Bible can be traced to having minimized the role of general revelation.

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Introduction,nd what it means to live a good life. This book explores how Princeton began and how it understood the knowledge of God and the good including its reliance on the beatific vision rather than the knowledge of God through the works of creation and providence.

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Jonathan Edwards,se areas and in a form of idealism that was perpetuated among the students. The combination of empiricism (religious experience) and idealism led to a form of otherworldliness that is contrary to the Westminster Confession and the original goals of Princeton.

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John Witherspoon,his life. His moral philosophy articulated the duty God requires of humans with the idea that happiness is the highest good. However, during his time the number of divinity students diminished, and there was a renewed need for a seminary to train ministers in the knowledge of God and piety.

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Charles Hodge,nd especially federal representation in the theory of atonement. His Theo-centric theology made the glory of God the central interpretive theme. Nevertheless, there remained in Hodge a commitment to the beatific vision as the highest good.

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Context and Goals of Early Princeton,ival in religious piety the need for a college to train ministers became clear. The founding purpose of the college was to train ministers in piety, which requires knowing God and the duty that God requires of humans. From the beginning the knowledge of God was mixed with the beatific vision in the afterlife.

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The Tennents and Revivals,xperience lent itself to teaching that the highest good consists in a beatific vision in the afterlife. The consequence was that piety and moral duty were taught as a means to this beatific vision and the knowledge of God through the works of creation and providence was minimized.