A Brief Response to Johan Serré, 'Buying and Selling...'

Authors

  • Mark Valeri E.T. Thompson Professor of Church History at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA.

Keywords:

Massachusetts, Early Modern History, Economy

Abstract

This essay [of Johan Serré] provides an engaging and suggestive re-reading of Edwards’s sermon on Ezekiel 22:12.  Some of its corrections to my 1991 Church History essay are well argued.  I did not intend in that essay, however, to claim that Edwards had “no understanding of the new economic ideals” or “lacked all insight into the workings of a free market,” as Serré says.  Rather,…

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Published

2013-03-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Articles