Freedom of the Will

Jonathan Edwards

ISBN 10: 1602069174 / ISBN 13: 9781602069176

Published by Cosimo Nov 2007, 2007

About this Item

Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freedom of the Will
• Publisher: Cosimo Nov 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602069174
• ISBN 13: 9781602069176
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 26D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 762 grams

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

It is appropriate that Freedom of the Will should appear as Volume 1, for although it is not the first in the Edwards chronology, it is the work through which his fame has been most widely spread abroad, even to the multitudes who have known the book only by hearsay.