Freedom of the WillSovereign Grace Publishers,, 2008 - 368 pages "Considered Edwards' finest work, the treatise is a monument of American philosophy," noted Christian History magazine (Vol. 4, No. 4, p.19). They continue, "In this treatise Edwards painstakingly shows that man is indeed free... but that God is still sovereign and still solely responsible for man's salvation. Edwards tries to show that a sinner and humans, in the Calvinist tradition, come into the world under the curse of Adam would never by himself choose to glorify God unless God himself changed that person's character. Regeneration, God's act, is the basis for repentance and conversion, the human actions." A detailed, careful, and strongly Calvinistic look at this important question. Edwards (1703-1758) is by far the best known American theologian. After graduating from and teaching at Yale University, he began a very fruitful ministry at Northampton, MA. The church was the scene of the explosive revival of 1734, 35, and burned fiercely for God under Edwards for several years. Edwards then went to pastor the lowly Indians. But at last he was called to be the first president of Princeton University, where he served only 5 weeks, dying of smallpox. |
Table des matières
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Concerning the Notion of Liberty and of Moral | 31 |
Several supposed ways of evading the foregoing | 41 |
Whether any Event whatsoever and Volition | 47 |
Whether Volition can arise without a Cause through | 54 |
SECTION PAGE | 63 |
Command and Obligation to Obedience consistent | 180 |
of Things in themselves good particularly con | 192 |
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 the Notion of Liberty of Will consist | 71 |
Concerning the supposed Liberty of the Will | 82 |
Volition necessarily connected with the Influence | 95 |
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 |
Concerning those Objections that this Scheme | 249 |
Concerning that Objection against the Doctrine | 257 |
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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