Freedom of the WillCosimo, Inc., 1 nov. 2007 - 368 pages Considered by many to be the greatest book by enormously influential American preacher and theologian JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758), this provocative 1754 work explores the necessity of God's grace for the salvaging of the damaged "will" of humanity and argues that free will is an extension of and connected to the grace of God. What is the nature of morality? Can God be evil? What constitutes sin? How does God's foreknowledge of all events impact concepts of morality? How does intent inform our acts of vice and virtue? Still controversial and hotly debated in the 21st century, this demanding evangelistic work-some call it the best argument for the sovereignty of God-is among the essential reading of the thinker whose philosophies inspired the 18th-century religious of the Great Awakening, which continues to hugely influence American Protestantism to this day. Freedom of the Will will enthrall and challenge serious readers of the Bible as well as students of theology's impact on American history. |
Table des matières
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PART II | 36 |
Whether any Event whatsoever and Volition | 47 |
Whether Volition can arise without a Cause through | 54 |
SECTION PAGE | 63 |
Concerning the Notion of Liberty of Will consist | 71 |
Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will | 82 |
Volition necessarily connected with the Influence | 95 |
Liberty of Indifference not only not necessary | 201 |
Arminian Notions of Moral Agency inconsistent | 210 |
PART IV | 217 |
The Falseness and Inconsistence of that meta | 224 |
The Reasons why some think it contrary to Com | 232 |
It is agreeable to Common Sense and the natural | 239 |
Concerning those Objections that this Scheme | 249 |
Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine | 257 |
The Evidence of Gods certain Foreknowledge | 111 |
Gods certain Foreknowledge of the future Voli | 133 |
Whether we suppose the Volitions of Moral | 148 |
The Acts of the Will of the human soul of Jesus | 156 |
The case of such as are given up of God to Sin | 172 |
Command and Obligation to Obedience consistent | 180 |
Some further Objection against the Moral Neces | 270 |
Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine | 285 |
Of a supposed Tendency of these Principles | 311 |
CONCLUSION | 322 |
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