Free Will

Free Will
Author: Peter B. Jung
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532661401

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.

Catalogues of Books

Catalogues of Books
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0300133944

This final volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards publishes for the first time Edwards’ “Catalogue,” a notebook he kept of books of interest, especially titles he hoped to acquire, and entries from his “Account Book,” a ledger in which he noted books loaned to family, parishioners, and fellow clergy. These two records, along with several shorter documents presented in the volume, illuminate Edwards’ own mental universe while also providing a remarkable window into the wider intellectual and print cultures of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. An extensive critical introduction places Edwards’ book lists in the contexts that shaped his reading agenda, and the result is the most comprehensive treatment yet of his reading and of the fascinating peculiarities of his time and place.

Catalogue. [With]

Catalogue. [With]
Author: Oxford and Cambridge university club libr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1887
Genre:
ISBN:

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1670
Release: 1864
Genre: Books
ISBN:

"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.