Freedom of the WillThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 270 pages What does it really mean to be possessed of free will? Why is this issue one of the most prominent points of divergence between the various Christian sects and traditions? In Freedom of the Will, leading thinker and theologian Jonathan Edwards offers a comprehensive take on this complex doctrine, addressing free will's relevance to Christianity and other religious faiths. |
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... to the mind, or tending to engage its inclination and choice, considered as evil or disagreeable; nor indeed, as indifferent, and neither agreeable nor disagreeable. But if it tends to draw the inclination, and move the Will, 16.
... to the mind, or tending to engage its inclination and choice, considered as evil or disagreeable; nor indeed, as indifferent, and neither agreeable nor disagreeable. But if it tends to draw the inclination, and move the Will, 16.
Page 17
... evil, or of that which is disagreeable and uneasy. It is agreeable and pleasing, to avoid what is disagreeable and displeasing, and to have uneasiness removed. So that here is included what Mr. Locke supposes determines the will. For ...
... evil, or of that which is disagreeable and uneasy. It is agreeable and pleasing, to avoid what is disagreeable and displeasing, and to have uneasiness removed. So that here is included what Mr. Locke supposes determines the will. For ...
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... evil, is one thing that has great influence on their minds to excite volition. When two kinds of future pleasure are presented for choice, though both are supposed exactly equal by the judgment, and both equally certain, yet of one the ...
... evil, is one thing that has great influence on their minds to excite volition. When two kinds of future pleasure are presented for choice, though both are supposed exactly equal by the judgment, and both equally certain, yet of one the ...
Page 56
... evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. To moral Agency belongs a moral faculty, or sense of moral good and evil, or of such a thing as desert or worthiness, of praise or blame, reward or punishments; and a ...
... evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. To moral Agency belongs a moral faculty, or sense of moral good and evil, or of such a thing as desert or worthiness, of praise or blame, reward or punishments; and a ...
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... evil. And therefore the moral Agency of the Supreme Being, who acts only in the capacity of a ruler towards his creatures, and never as a subject, differs in that respect from the moral Agency of created intelligent beings. God's ...
... evil. And therefore the moral Agency of the Supreme Being, who acts only in the capacity of a ruler towards his creatures, and never as a subject, differs in that respect from the moral Agency of created intelligent beings. God's ...
Contents
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Section XIII | 233 |
PART III | 239 |
Section I | 240 |
Section II | 247 |
Section III | 271 |
Section IV | 283 |
Section V | 301 |
Section VI | 315 |
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Section V | 96 |
Section VI | 103 |
Section VII | 116 |
Section VIII | 132 |
Section IX | 138 |
Section X | 151 |
Section XI | 176 |
Section XII | 209 |
Section VII | 329 |
PART IV | 340 |
Section I | 341 |
Section II | 352 |
Section III | 365 |
Section IV | 377 |
Section V | 391 |
Section VI | 404 |
Section VII | 410 |
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