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Jonathan Edwards and the Protestant Scholastics

Edwards’s theological and philosophical reflections can be found in his treatises, miscellanies, sermons, forms of Scripture commentary, notebooks, and other writings. Given that he lived in the late orthodox period of the post-Reformation era, it is natural to raise the question to what degree there was continuity and discontinuity between his theological and philosophical thought and that of his predecessors. This is all the more important because some of Edwards’s doctrinal formulations found their way into New England’s “New Divinity.” The answer to this question, then, will be formulated, in part, against the background of Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706), a representative of Protestant scholasticism, who wrote during high orthodoxy. It is hoped that this will also satisfy some in Edwards scholarship who ask who Mastricht is. He is an appropriate subject for comparison considering the praise the preacher of Northampton bestowed upon the German-Dutch theologian, philosopher, and Hebraist.