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Reformed Thought on Freedom: The Concept of Free Choice in Early Modern Reformed Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discover the philosophical sophistication of the older Reformed position on divine sovereignty and human will. The texts in this book highlight the positive aspects of the Reformed tradition, and contributors demonstrate that traditional Calvinism cannot be easily dismissed as a form of philosophical determinism. Reformed Thought on Freedom will be valued by Reformation scholars, professors and...

This distinction parallels the one between essential and accidental freedom.33 The essential freedom of man is given with human nature and exists in each state. Moreover, each state is distinguished by a different kind of accidental freedom in virtue of the accidental qualifications of each state. Before explaining these states and the accompanying sorts of freedom, De Moor deals in locus XIII with the general nature of man, in the course of which he also discusses the basic freedom man has in every
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