{"product_id":"the-works-of-jonathan-edwards-jonathan-edwards-9780300040203","title":"The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 8: Volume 8: Ethical Writings","description":"This volume contains two major works of Jonathan Edwards: an unpublished text of a series of sermons he preached in 1738, known as \u003ci\u003eCharity and Its Fruits\u003c\/i\u003e, and his \u003ci\u003eTwo Dissertations: I. Concerning the End for Which God Created the World and II. On the Nature of True Virtue, \u003c\/i\u003epublished posthumously in 1765. Together these writings set out the principles of Edwards' ethical reflections.\u003cbr\u003eThe text of the sermon series is drawn from three sources. The primary text is an early nineteenth-century transcription of Edwards' sermon booklets now in the Andover-Newton Theological School's collection. Passages published in Tyron Edwards' 1852 edition, and partial transcriptions by Joseph Bellamy found in three fragments among his papers, have been used where the Andover copy is incomplete. The Bellamy fragments are reproduced in their entirety in a critical appendix, along with examples showing the editor's use of the three sources in construing this definitive text for the Yale edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnd of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrue Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e, intended by Edwards to be read together, are shown here to be closely related to Edwards' other writings. Paul Ramsey's introduction points out that Edwards returned again and again to these topics in his \u003ci\u003eMiscellanies\u003c\/i\u003e, where he identifies penultimate versions of both treatises and traces the development of Edwards' ideas. Thus the reader is able to follow Edwards' most profound reflections about God and the moral dimensions of his creations. \u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the most wide-ranging theological and philosophical volumes projected in the Yale edition. The Editor's Introduction gives a systematic analysis of the theological ethics to be found in these writings and of Edwards' esteem for the splendor of common morality. Appendices exploring the \"moral sense\" school, \"infused\" virtue in Edwards and Calvin, and Edwards' belief in the never ending increase of holiness and happiness in heaven complete the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Edwards, Paul Ramsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300040202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300040203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.54w x 2.24d","brand":"Jonathan Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44829290594559,"sku":"9780300040203","price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b733f38e-3231-4317-be8f-8b0eeae47f54.jpg?v=1708450373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-works-of-jonathan-edwards-jonathan-edwards-9780300040203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}