Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725208571
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A major work in moral philosophy by the Puritan who was the most modern man of his age. Edwards at his very greatest . . . he speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him. Perry Miller, 'Jonathan Edwards' Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as true virtue is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hellfire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Eremitical Press
ISBN: 9781926777207
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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What does it mean to be virtuous? How is virtue connected to the love of God? These are the questions Jonathan Edwards sets out to answer in his dissertation on the nature of true virtue. With relentless logic, Edwards argues from common experience to general principles. He distinguishes between primary and secondary forms of virtue and shows that the highest human actions must necessarily arise from a clear sense of God's purpose. "The general nature of true virtue," he says, "is love."
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Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: James Duban
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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This study details the compatibility of ideas between Jonathan Edwards and Emanuel Swedenborg that helped forge the theological socialism of Henry James Sr. Duban demonstrates how a forgotten newspaper exchange between the elder James and Unitarian minister Henry Whitney Bellows clarified the Puritan foundations of the elder James's philosophy. Henry James Jr., in turn, transformed the phenomenalistic and Edwardsian foundations of his father's philosophy into the psychological dramas of major novels, although deeming the father's political radicalism destructive of aesthetic valuation.
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: William HART (Pastor of the First Church in Say-Brook.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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![An inquiry into the Nature of True Holiness. With an appendix, containing an Answer to ... W. Hart's Remarks on President Edwards's Dissertation on the Nature of true Virtue; and brief Remarks on some things, Mr. [M.] Mather has lately published (in the piece entitled, The Visible Church in covenant with God, further illustrated). Also an Answer to Mr. Hemmenway's Vindication, etc PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/aPZhAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Samuel HOPKINS (D.D., Pastor of Newport, U.S.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Virginia A. Peacock
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379646099
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T057073 Anonymous. By Jonathan Edwards. Originally published in 1765 in 'Two dissertations I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue.'. London: printed by W. Oliver: sold by T. Payne and Son; T. Cadell; Messrs Dilly; C. Parker; Mr Prince, at Oxford; Mr Merril, at Cambridge, 1778. xv, [1],278p.; 8°
Author: Virginia A. Peacock
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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This text explores the problems in the interpretation of Jonathan Edwards' The Nature of True Virtue.
