Page | 108 In this hierarchy one member—the References human—had stepped beyond Lis . "In the interests of clarity, I have assigned place Hf the SST society and slightly rearranged and modernized this now lived in an unwitting complacency, quotation. It and all quotations from ignoring the precarious finitude of a life Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan being pursued by a radical judgment: Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- “tis nothing but [God’s] hand that holds 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. you from falling into the fire every Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of moment: ’tis to be ascribed to nothing Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale else, that you did not go to hell the last University Press, 2003), 404-18. night; that YOU Was suffered to awake ' Social scientific analysis of the relation again in this world, after you closed your between anthropomorphism and religion is eyes to sleep: And there is no other summarized by Steward Elliot Guthrie, who reason to be given, why you have not argues “religion is anthropomorphism” in dropped into hell since you arose in the his book Faces in the Clouds: A New morning, but that God’s hand has held Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford you up.” University Press, 1993), 178. The most lucid and succinct historical treatment Like his contemporaries, the remains Frank E. Manuel, The Eighteenth deists and religiously inclined scientists Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge: such as Newton himself, Jonathan Harvard University Press, 1959). Edwards assumed thE Newtonian world 'Thave in mind such authors as John machine, Speraung with the William Draper, History of the Conflict metronomic regularity of natural law. between Religion and Science (1874), and Presupposing both the science and the Andrew Dickson White, A History of the aristocratic social hierarchy of his day, Warfare of Science with Theology in Edward introduced anthropomorphic Christendom (1896). For a more recent language to create a clash