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This inaugural volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards is his major contribution to theology and stands as a leading document on Calvinist thought. Mr. Ramsey’s introduction provides a fresh analysis of Edwards’ theological position, includes a study of his life and the intellectual issues in the America of his time, and examines the problem of free will in the philosophical context of today and...

original, separate achievements, like the metaphysical idealism of Edwards and Bishop Berkeley on which there has been so much comment. Edwards plainly admits, even contends, that whether a man is determined in his choice by some prior cause or by no cause at all does not enter into the definition or the experience of freedom. If a person is able to do what he wills or chooses, he is free, no matter how he came to make this choice. In his “Remarks on the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural
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