Reading Jonathan Edwards


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This compilation of reader response to Jonathan Edwards, spanning 276 years, includes a reprint of two earlier works ? Jonathan Edwards: A Reference Guide (1981) and Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography (1994) ? and the publication of a third, a gathering of commentary from 1994 to 2005. Nearly 140 essays have been added to the first and second works, while the last new gathering ? which includes a celebration of the tercentenary of Edwards??'s birth ? adds another 700 to the whole. The text preserves the pattern of arranging items alphabetically within a given year and of recording cross-references. Essays in a collection are annotated serially rather than alphabetically. Each of the three sections is self-contained with an introduction and annotated bibliography of its own. Adding to the immense value of this work to Edwards scholars are the chronology of Edwards??'s works, listed by date and by short and long title, which precedes the entire work, and the three comprehensive indexes ? of authors and titles, of subjects, and additions to the previous volumes.




Determinism OR Free-Will?


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Chapman Cohen's "Determinism or Free-Will?" is a concept-provoking analysis of one of the maximum lasting philosophical issues that has captivated philosophers for millennia. Cohen's paintings, posted in the early 20th century, looks into the warfare among determinism and loose will, contradictory ideas that have an effect on our view of human motion. Cohen engages readers in a riveting evaluation of the debates over the nature of choice, causality, and the amount of character manipulate over acts. He gives a comprehensive explanation, deconstructing the results of each determinism, the belief that activities are predestined by way of antecedent causes, and loose will, the perception that people have the autonomy to make choices unbiased of outside forces. The creator navigates hard philosophical troubles with clarity, making the communication understandable to human beings with numerous intellectual backgrounds. Cohen's work is greater than just a philosophical treatise; it invitations readers to consider the underlying essence of human lifestyles and the consequences of embracing either determinism or unfastened will. Chapman Cohen's "Determinism or Free-Will?" invitations readers to recall the essential troubles that have captivated philosophers in the course of records, supplying an undying investigation of the interaction between destiny and personal activity.




Freedom of the Will


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Is the human will in bondage to sinful motives, to the point that people cannot make truly free decisions? Daniel D. Whedon, a prominent nineteenth-century Wesleyan theologian, takes aim at this central thesis of the famed theologian Jonathan Edwards. In this new edition of his widely admired 1864 work, Whedon offers a step-by-step examination of Edwards's positions and finds them lacking in Biblical and logical support. Within his position against Edwards, he argues that the difference between natural ability and moral ability is meaningless, that Edwards's deterministic necessitarian argument makes God the author of sin, and that people frequently act against their strongest motives. He concludes that, without a free will, there can be no justice, no satisfying the moral sense, no moral Government of which the creature can be the rightful subject, and no God the righteous administrator.




Freedom and Christian Conduct


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Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature


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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.