Freedom of the Will

by Jonathan Edwards

Edwards' masterwork on the will, grace and human responsibility: often called the most rigorous work of theology ever written in America.

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1Section I. Concerning the Nature of the Will.
2Section II. Concerning the Determination of the Will.
3Section III. Concerning the Meaning of the Terms, Necessity, Impossibility, Inability, &c and of Contingence.
4Section IV. Of the Distinction of Natural and Moral Necessity, and Inability.
5Section V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency.
6Section I. Showing the Manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will, Consisting in the Will’s Self-Determing Power
7Section II. Several Supposed Ways of Evading the Foregoing Reasoning Considered.
8Section III. Whether Any Event Whatsoever, and Volition in Particular, Can Come to Pass Without a Cause of Its Existence.

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Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pastor, philosopher and the central figure of the Great Awakening. Later president of Princeton, he is widely regarded as the greatest theologian America has ever produced.

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