assumptions had such a large impact on subsequent Western thought, Edwards’ views are still of interest today. In February 1757, Edwards described these two treatises to Thomas Foxcroft, his Boston colleague and literary agent, as answering “the modern opinions which prevail concerning these two things, [which] stand very much as foundations of that fashionable scheme of divinity, which seems to have become almost universal.”2 The fashionable answers to these two related questions, he believed, lay