Edwards On The Will

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556357176

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Edwards on the Will by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries--a man over six feet tall and a figure of theological stature--but the reasons for his power have been a matter of dispute. Edwards on the Will offers a persuasive explanation. In 1753, after seven years of personal trials, which included dismissal from his Northampton church, Edwards submitted a treatise, Freedom of the Will, to Boston publishers. Its impact on Puritan society was profound. He had refused to be trapped either by a new Arminian scheme that seemed to make God impotent or by a Hobbesian natural determinism that made morality an illusion. He both reasserted the primacy of God's will and sought to reconcile freedom with necessity. In the process he shifted the focus from the community of duty to the freedom of the individual. Edwards died of smallpox in 1758 soon after becoming president of Princeton; as one obituary said, he was "a most rational . . . and exemplary Christian." Thereafter, for a century or more, all discussion of free will and on the church as an enclave of the pure in an impure society had to begin with Edwards. His disciples, the "New Divinity" men--principally Samuel Hopkins of Great Barrington and Joseph Bellamy of Bethlehem, Connecticut--set out to defend his thought. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, tried to keep his influence off the Yale Corporation, but Edwards's ideas spread beyond New Haven and sparked the religious revivals of the next decades. In the end, old Calvinism returned to Yale in the form of Nathaniel William Taylor, the Boston Unitarians captured Harvard, and Edwards's troublesome ghost was laid to rest. The debate on human freedom versus necessity continued, but theologians no longer controlled it. In Edwards on the Will, Guelzo presents with clarity and force the story of these fascinating maneuverings for the soul of New England and of the emerging nation.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4D1V

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Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Peter B. Jung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532661426

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Free Will by Peter B. Jung Pdf

Free Will, also known as Freedom of the Will, is appraised as the one of the greatest works ever produced in America. The mid-eighteenth-century New England philosophical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) defines the will by importing terms from John Locke. Edwards states the Arminian nature of free will, suspects the need for such free will, and finally defends Calvinist free will and objects to the Arminian one. In his argument, he chooses three British antagonists: Daniel Whitby, Thomas Chubb, and Isaac Watts. These antagonists insist that the self-determining will is necessary for us to be morally accountable. Edwards disputes their objections that God's determination is contradictory to the liberty of the human will. He then goes to argue what kind of freedom of the will is necessary for the former and latter to be compatible. Edwards's psychological, moral, and theological philosophy is displayed. In addition, readers can learn how our will chooses something pleasant by following the dictate of understanding, while the author demonstrates the natures of New England Arminianism and Calvinism.

Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271039657

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One Holy and Happy Society by Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

Jonathan Edwards (1703&–58) was arguably this country's greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the &"New Divinity&") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America. Hence any study of religion and politics in early America must take account of this theologian and his legacy. Yet historians still regard Edward's social theory as either nonexistent or underdeveloped. Gerald McDermott demonstrates, to the contrary, that Edwards was very interested in the social and political affairs of his day, and commented upon them at length in his unpublished sermons and private notebooks. McDermott shows that Edwards thought deeply about New England's status under God, America's role in the millennium, the nature and usefulness of patriotism, the duties of a good magistrate, and what it means to be a good citizen. In fact, his sociopolitical theory was at least as fully developed as that of his better-known contemporaries and more progressive in its attitude toward citizens' rights. Using unpublished manuscripts that have previously been largely ignored, McDermott also convincingly challenges generations of scholarly opinion about Edwards. The Edwards who emerges from this nook is both less provincial and more this-worldly than the persona he is commonly given.

Author : Michael J. McClymond,Michael James McClymond,Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199791606

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The Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Michael J. McClymond,Michael James McClymond,Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thought and include in-depth discussions of the extensive secondary literature on Edwards as well as Edwards's own writings. Its opening chapters set out Edwards's historical and personal theological contexts. The next thirty chapters connect Edwards's theological loci in the temporally-ordered way in which he conceptualized the theological enterprise-beginning with the triune God in eternity with his angels to the history of redemption as an expression of God's inner reality ad extra, and then back to God in eschatological glory.The authors analyze such themes as aesthetics, metaphysics, typology, history of redemption, revival, and true virtue. They also take up such rarely-explored topics as Edwards's missiology, treatment of heaven and angels, sacramental thought, public theology, and views of non-Christian religions. Running throughout the volume are what the authors identify as five basic theological constituents: trinitarian communication, creaturely participation, necessitarian dispositionalism, divine priority, and harmonious constitutionalism. Later chapters trace his influence on and connections with later theologies and philosophies in America and Europe. The result is a multi-layered analysis that treats Edwards as a theologian for the twenty-first-century global Christian community, and a bridge between the Christian West and East, Protestantism and Catholicism, conservatism and liberalism, and charismatic and non-charismatic churches.

Author : Sebastian Rehnman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000261295

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Edwards on God by Sebastian Rehnman Pdf

Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers. Edwards on God offers a historically informed philosophical analysis of his arguments for the existence and nature of God. The book begins with a characterization of Edwards’s intellectual profile and philosophical theology. It then explicates and evaluates his arguments from the beginning of existence, design, ‘being in general’, virtue as benevolence, and his account of natural and moral divine attributes. There is no other such treatment of Edwards’s metaphysics of divinity. This volume will be primarily relevant to philosophers, historians and theologians.

Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195351002

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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods by Gerald R. McDermott Pdf

This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was unparalleled in the eighteenth century and surprisingly generous toward non-Christian traditions.

Author : Jonathan Edwards Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986385906

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Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Books Pdf

Is God sovereign over our "free will"? If God is sovereign over the human will, are we responsible? What is the nature of morality? What constitutes sin? "In this timeless classic, Jonathan Edwards gives biblical answers to various profound questions regarding the sovereignty of God, free will, God's foreknowledge, determinism, moral agency, desire, choice, good, and evil. In a totally engaging and uplifting way, he carefully shows that man is indeed free, but that God is still sovereign and still solely responsible for man's salvation. And that God's act of regeneration is the basis for repentance and conversion, the human actions. He argues that free will is an extension of and connected to the grace of God. "Freedom of the Will" is relevant to every Christian, because it is a good tool for learning of the greatness of Christ's grace, in overcoming our minds and hearts and loving us to the uttermost. This should be in the library of every Christian family. "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy"- Romans 9:16

Author : Gilsun Ryu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683594576

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The Federal Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Gilsun Ryu Pdf

The Christ-centered exegesis of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards is remembered for his sermons and works of theology and philosophy--but he has been overlooked as an exegete. Gilsun Ryu's The Federal Theology of Jonathan Edwards explores how exegesis drove Edwards's focus on the headship of Christ as second Adam--and likewise formed a foundation for his broader theological reasoning and writing, especially on Christ and the covenants. Edwards's distinctive emphases on exegesis, redemptive history, and the harmony of Scripture distinguish him from his Reformed forebears. Ryu's study will help readers appreciate Edwards's contribution as an exegetically informed Reformed theologian.

Author : Michael J. McClymond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195353433

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Encounters with God by Michael J. McClymond Pdf

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.

Author : Amy Plantinga Pauw
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802849849

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"The Supreme Harmony of All" by Amy Plantinga Pauw Pdf

Jonathan Edwards lived in an age in which the doctrine of the Trinity was sometimes openly repudiated and more often quietly ignored. But as this important book shows, Edwards in fact took care to creatively fashion the Trinity into the centerpiece of his Christian life and work. Through her pursuit of Edwards's writings, especially his lifelong intellectual diary, Amy Plantinga Pauw traces the way Edwards established the basic outlines of his trinitarian thought when he was only twenty years old, and how the doctrine continued to run like a subterranean river throughout his famed career as a pastor and teacher. Recognizing the centrality of the Trinity in Edwards's thought both nuances our understanding of his Puritan inheritance and challenges the narrowness of Edwards's enduring legacy as the preacher of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Author : Sang Hyun Lee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691203140

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The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards by Sang Hyun Lee Pdf

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely recognized as one of the greatest philosopher-theologians America has ever produced, and recent years have seen a remarkable increase in research on his writings. To date, however, there has been no single authoritative volume that introduces and interprets the key aspects of Edwards' thought as a whole. The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards provides just such a concise and comprehensive work, one that will be invaluable to students and scholars of American religion and theology as well as of literature, philosophy, and history. Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars on Edwards, the book will inform and challenge readers on subjects ranging from Edwards' understanding of the Trinity, God and the world, Christ, and salvation, as well as of history, typology, the church, and mission to Native Americans. It also includes a chronology of Edwards' life and writings that incorporates current research. Those familiar with Edwards' writings will find in these essays succinct expositions as well as bold new interpretations, and others will find an accessible, authoritative, up-to-date orientation to his multifaceted thought. The essays are by Robert E. Brown, Allen C. Guezlo, Robert W. Jenson, Wilson H. Kimnach, Janice Knight, Sang Hyun Lee, Gerald R. McDermott, Kenneth P. Minkema, Mark Noll, Richard R. Niebuhr, Amy Plantinga Pauw, John E. Smith, Stephen J. Stein, Harry S. Stout, Douglas A. Sweeney, Peter J. Thuesen, and John F. Wilson.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608090816

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Edwards on the Will by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9360072095

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Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Has God the right to exercise our "free will"? Are we in charge if God rules over human free will? What exactly is morality like? What exactly is sin? Jonathan Edwards answers important philosophical queries about God's sovereignty, free will, God's knowledge, determinism, moral agency, desire, choice, good, and evil in this timeless classic. Every Christian can benefit from reading "Freedom of the Will" because it serves as a useful tool for understanding the magnitude of Christ's love in overcoming our minds and emotions and genuinely loving us. Every Christian family's library ought to contain this.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : Sin, Original
ISBN : NYPL:33433068244551

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The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended by Jonathan Edwards Pdf