Jonathan Edwards confronts the gods : Christian theology, Enlightenment religion, and non-Christian faiths

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McDermott, Gerald R. (Gerald Robert), author

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It has been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - which denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. The author argues that Edwards's real target was a more in...

It has been thought that Edwards's polemical arguments were aimed against Arminianism - which denied the Calvinist idea of predestination. The author argues that Edwards's real target was a more influential one, namely deism - the belief in a creator God who does not intervene in His Creation.

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