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John Edwards (16371716) on Human Free Choice and Divine Necessity: The Debate on the Relation between Divine Necessity and Human Freedom in Late … England: 22
Author(s): Jeongmo Yoo (Author)
- Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
- Publication Date: 13 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 324 pages
- ISBN-10: 3525550421
- ISBN-13: 9783525550427
Book Description
Filling the historiographical gap, Yoo raises a fundamental question concerning the criticism of the Reformed doctrine of free choice in relationship to divine necessity as determinism. Unlike the deterministic interpretation of traditional Reformed thought on free choice, the substantive and careful study of John Edwards writings on free choice in the intellectual context of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century shows that in Edwards view, human beings retain the natural freedom from compulsion and freedom of contrary choice even after the Fall, and divine necessity such as decree, predestination, and foreknowledge does not exclude human free choice at all.
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About the Author
Jeongmo Yoo, Ph.D. ist Adjunct Professor am Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City und Forschungsstipendiat am Andrew Fuller Center of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.
