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Abstract
This article describes the editorial practices that Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley brought to their respective editions of The Life of David Brainerd, explains how those practices were informed by their opposing theological stances towards salvation, and traces the circulation and reception of each edition back to those theological stances. Finally, the article invokes classic models of the methodology of book history and recent work on the circulation of nineteenth-century evangelical publications, arguing that an understanding of the kind of theological editing eighteenth-century figures like Edwards and Wesley took can better help us to articulate nineteenth- and twentieth- (and twenty-first) century attitudes and assumptions about agency and material texts.
Résumé
Cet article décrit les pratiques éditoriales adoptées par Jonathan Edwards et John Wesley dans leurs éditions respectives de The Life of David Brainerd, explique de quelle manière ces pratiques furent alimentées par l’opposition théologique entre les deux hommes concernant le salut, et retrace la diffusion et la réception de chaque édition en fonction de ces positions théologiques distinctes. Sont également évoqués les modèles traditionnels de la méthodologie de l’histoire du livre ainsi que des travaux récents sur la diffusion des publications évangéliques du xixe siècle, de manière à faire valoir que la compréhension du genre d'édition théologique pratiqué par des figures du xviiie siècle comme Edwards et Wesley peut nous aider à mieux cerner les attitudes et les hypothèses ayant cours aux xixe et xxe siècles (et au xxie) en ce qui a trait à l’agentivité et à la matérialité des textes.
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