The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook (Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies)

Originally published posthumously in 1955 Harvey G. Townsends Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards reprinted some of Edwards most important early compositions on natural philosophy Of Being and The Mind and collected nearly two hundred Miscellanies entries some of them published here for the first time. In his introduction Townsend points to Edwards radical idealism that derived from Christian Platonism and John Locke rather than George Berkeley as commonly thought. Townsends work represents an important sourcebook for Edwards writings and his introduction presents a clear picture of mainstream Edwards scholarship at the middle of the twentieth century.