Jonathan Edwards

Freedom of the Will

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Produktbeschreibung

The 18th-century theologian's most important contribution to Christian thought, this polemic contrasts the opposing Calvinist and Arminian views of free will and raises timeless questions about desire, choice, good, and evil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 289g
• ISBN-13: 9780486489209
• ISBN-10: 0486489205
• Artikelnr.: 34559474

Autorenporträt

Colonial-era preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was a prolific author whose eloquent works inspired countless missionaries. He is the author of Dover's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Wherein are explained and stated various terms and things belonging to the subject of the ensuing discourse Part 2. Wherein it is considered whether there is or can be any sort of freedom of will
as that wherein Arminians place the essence of the liberty of all moral agents; and whether asny such thing ever was or can be conceived of. Part 3.Wherein is inquired whether any such liberty of will as Arminians hold
be necessary to moral agency
virtue
praise
and dispraise
etc. Part 4. Wherin the chief grounds of the reasoning of Arminians
in support and defense of the aforementioned notions of liberty
moral agency
etc.
and against the opposite doctrine
are considered. Conclusion