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Birthing the New Birth

其他書名	The Natural Philosophy of Childbirth in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards
出版	Florida State University, 2009
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jaDOjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋ABSTRACT: "It may be in the new birth as it is in the first birth." So wrote theologian Jonathan Edwards in his "Miscellanies" note numbered 241, named "Regeneration". The "new birth" that he spoke of was the process of religious conversion whereby God takes away one's sinful nature and instills a new, regenerate nature. The process of the new birth is intricately linked to the "first birth," which refers to physical childbirth. This thesis explores the ways in which eighteenth-century conceptions of childbirth helped to shape the new birth theology of Edwards. While historians have tended to portray Edwards, the revivals that he spawned, and new birth theology as erasing the distinctions of gender, this thesis will argue that Edwardsian evangelicalism actually highlighted the sinfulness of women