Freedom of the Will ebook

by Jonathan Edwards

Mr. Locke (2) says, The Will is perfectly distinguished from desire; which in the very same action may have quite contrary tendency from that which our wills sets us upon.

Part I. Wherein are explained and stated various terms and things belonging to the subject of the ensuing discourse. Mr. A man, says he, whom I cannot deny, may oblige me to use persuasions to another, which, at the same time I am speaking, I may wish not prevail on him.

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Jonathan Edwards was a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and . There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will (1754).

Jonathan Edwards was a key figure in what has come to be called the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s. Edwards was dismissed over the issue of open communion in 1750. He then moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a small congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. Edwards was elected president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in early 1758.

Considered by many to be the greatest book by enormously influential American preacher and theologian JONATHAN EDWARDS (17031758), this provocative 1754 work explores the necessity of Gods 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 Gods foreknowledge of all events impact concepts of morality? How does intent inform our acts of vice and virtue?

The book takes the classic Calvinist viewpoint on total depravity of the will and the need of humanity for God's grace in salvation.

The book takes the classic Calvinist viewpoint on total depravity of the will and the need of humanity for God's grace in salvation. Although written long before the modern introduction and debate over Open Theism, Edwards' work addresses many of the concerns that have been raised today over this view. One of the authors that provoked the writing of The Freedom of the Will was Daniel Whitby.

It has been said of Jonathan Edwards that he produced one of the most thorough and compelling bodies of theological writing in the history of America. Perhaps this is seen best in his book Freedom of the Will. More commonly asserted is the statement that Edwards was the greatest intellect that America has ever produced. A glancing at the title might lead some to think that Edwards and Luther differed. This is not so, essentially.

Jonathan Edwards is one of the greatest thinkers in American history, and while "Sinners in the Hand of an.Daniel Webster wrote: "The Freedom of the Will" by Mr. Edwards is the greatest achievement of the human intellect.

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Romans 9:16 ("It is not of him that willeth") serves as the text for Edwards' examination of the nature and state of man's will

Romans 9:16 ("It is not of him that willeth") serves as the text for Edwards' examination of the nature and state of man's will. Written in 1754 while the author served as a missionary to Native Americans, this polemic raises timeless questions about desire, choice, good, and evil. Edwards contrasts the opposing Calvinist and Arminian views of free will and addresses issues related to God's foreknowledge, determinism, and moral agency.

Edwards worked out his thinking on the subject over many years, but began actually drafting the book in August of.Second, I will reconstruct Edwards’ concept of the will

Edwards worked out his thinking on the subject over many years, but began actually drafting the book in August of 1752 while in Stockbridge. It was ready for publication in 1753 and eventually published in 1754. Second, I will reconstruct Edwards’ concept of the will. Although some have found it to be intolerably complex, it is actually quite simple and forthright once one grasps the meaning of several important terms he employs. Third, and finally, I want to address the most problematic element in Edwards’ theology of the will, the fall of Adam and the entrance of evil into the human race. Storms expresses some disagreement with Edwards’ approach on how the fall came about.

Jonathan Edwards is celebrated as America's finest Christian thinker. In FREEDOM OF THE WILL he presents an analysis of Calvinist and Arminian ideas about free will. In doing so, he pursues a relentless logic and cites hundreds of pieces of evidence from Scripture. Edwards was a preacher and missionary in colonial America. The son of a minister, he attended Yale while still a teenager and went on to study theology. While he was pastoring a church in Northampton, the Great Awakening reached the town. Amid the fervor of religious revival, Edwards preached both encourage to true Christianity and to alert congregations to superficial imitations. Toward the end of his life, Edwards was appointed president of Princeton University. FREEDOM OF THE WILL is Jonathan Edwards' masterpiece of profound analysis and his most important contribution to Christian thought.

OCARO

+ The work of Edwards is flawless. The long trains of thought, and puritan sentence structure tend to put off most modern readers, and some of it is a bit like reading a math equation, but the logic is impeccable.

- Some editting errors leave me shaking my head too often. It would not be so bad if they weren't so numerous. I bought this print for a semi-Pelagian friend, and I am afraid to give it to him because some of the errors are embarrasing. I will try to find a more carefully editted version of this classic work to give.

funike

Good stuff but a little dense and the language is hard to understand at times. This book was written in the early 1700's before the revolution so the language is dated. Mr. Edwards' style also makes comprehension a little more challenging also. If you can get past the language issues he has a lot of great points. This book was written to counter arguments made by another man so not having read the initial material that this book answers makes it hard to follow the rebuttal at times.

Overall worth reading!

Mr_Jeйson

America's best theologian. I have only read one chapter
but find it interesting, college-level and on target.

Gorisar

This volume merely a print out of the Edwards' work online, and it's incomplete! There is no info on edition, publication, no title page, etc, so it is impossible to site. It stops at Part IV section 7, and does not print the rest! The volume does not even mark section numbers and part numbers... It is very frustrating when there is no way to reference the work when you're writing a paper.

Magis

Jonathan Edwards through his divinely gifted intellect leads the reader into a purely reasoned exposition of freedom of will based on nature and necessity rather than the Arminian defense that for the will to be truly free it must not be influenced or constrained by necessity. He concludes his argument powerfully by illustrating that God's will being totally shaped by the necessity of his holiness and immutability of course does not detract one iota from His virtue, and so the greater necessity of man through his nature and moral influences toward virtue or vice does not detract all from his free will nor diminish the praise deserved for his virtues or the condemnation for his vices.

Brariel

Such a blessing to read the writings of one of the GREAT DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH! EXCELLENT!

Buzatus

Deep, tough reading but good

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