‘The Being of Beings’ Jonathan Edwards' Understanding of God as Reflected in His Final Treatises

Author:

Jinkins Michael

Abstract

The final phase of jonathan Edwards' work centers around his defense of Calvinism against ‘Arminianism’. Along with certain tendencies in this ‘Arminianism’, which included its undermining of the unconditionality and freedom of the grace of God and its narrowing of the conception of God to those attributes acceptable to current cultural standards, it also held to the view that the human will is not determined by God or nature, or anything prior to its own acts, butis ‘self-determining’, possessing ‘a certain sovereignty over itself and its own acts’, thus determining its own volition. The notion of ‘indifference’, the mind's being ‘in equilibrio’ prior to any ‘act of volition’, was essential to the Arminian conception of liberty, as was ‘contingence’, understood as a lack of connectedness to any prior chain of causation.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Religious studies

Reference34 articles.

1. Miscellanies;J.E.;The Works of President Edwards

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