Online Journal Article: "What Is A Person? Three Essential Criteria For Jonathan Edwards’s Doctrine Of Personhood" Jets 61.1 (2018): 121–35

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From the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS)
JETS 61.1 (2018): 121–35
WHAT IS A PERSON? THREE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA FOR
JONATHAN EDWARDS’S DOCTRINE OF PERSONHOOD
OBBIE TYLER TODD
Abstract: Jonathan Edward’s Trinitarianism and soteriology were bridged by his doctrine of
personhood. In defining personhood, Edwards operated under three essential theological criteria.
Edwardsean personhood was relational, reflexive, and redemptive. It is the aim of this article
to elucidate Edwards’s Trinitarianism by unpacking these three axioms of personhood and
how they influenced his particular view of redemption and the Christian life.
Key words: person, personhood, Trinity, reflexive, relational, redemptive, self