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The Strange Universe of Jonathan Edwards*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Rufus Suter
Affiliation:
Bradbury Heights, Maryland

Extract

Somebody has said that Mencius, though he lived almost twenty-five centuries ago and belonged to an alien culture, is more intelligible to us today than our own Jonathan Edwards of Connecticut. There is some truth in this remark.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1961

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References

1 Vol. 5. “Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners,” pp. 498 ff.

Vol. 7. “Miscellaneous Remarks,” chapter 6, pp. 505 ff.

2 Vol. 2. “Original Sin,” cf. section 9, pp. 378 ff. and p. 547. Also see Perry Miller's Jonathan Edwards, William Sloane Associates, 1949, in “The American Men of Letters Series,” 71 ff., 192, 225, 267 ff.

3 Vol. 7. “Miscellaneous Remarks,” chapter 2, pp. 347 ff.

4 Vol. 3. “History of Redemption,” p. 416.

5 Vol. 8. Sermon I, pp. 16 ff.

6 “Vol. 3. “Nature of True Virtue,” p. 114.

Vol 7. “Miscellaneous Observations,” chapter 7, pp. 277 ff.

Vol 8. Ibid., descriptions of life in Heaven, pp. 526 ff.

Vol 7. “Miscellaneous Remarks,” chapter 6, pp. 520 ff.

7 Vol. 8. “Miscellaneous Observations,” pp. 505 ff.

8 Vol. 3. “End for which God Created the World,” pp. 85 ff.

Vol 7. “Miscellaneous Remarks,” chapter 1, pp. 360 ff.

9 Vol. i. Appendix, “The Mind,” pp. 664 ff.