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Table of contents :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE
Virtue and Salvation: Centrifugal Forces
Edwards as Theologian and Philosopher: Centrifugal Historiographies
INTRODUCTION. REREADING EDWARDS’S ETHICS
The Current State of Scholarship
The Need for a New Reading
Protestant Scholasticism as a Historical Frame
Pushing the Theological Boundaries of Perfectionism
Aristotelian and Neoplatonic Philosophies of Virtue
A Summary of the Argument
CHAPTER ONE. THE UBIQUITY OF THE PRACTICAL SYLLOGISM
Christian Practice as the ‘Sign of Signs’
The Ubiquity of Puritanism
The Practical Syllogism Used Against the Revivalists
The Practical Syllogism Used Against Moral Sense Philosophy
Sharpening the Syllogism: The Distinctive Motivational Structure of Sanctified Charity
Conclusions: Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and Perfectionistic
CHAPTRER TWO. THE HOLY SPIRIT’S TENANCY EXPANDED
Virtue as the ‘Sign of Signs’ and Imputed Righteousness
Tensions in Calvin, Puritan Responses, and Edwards’s Revival Writings
Cambridge Platonists on Virtue and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
Using Cambridge Platonism Against Deism and Moral Sense Theory
Adapting Emanation Metaphysics for Reformed Polemics
Edwards’s Privileging of Inherent Righteousness Over Imputed Righteousness
A Reformed Moral Sense Theory?
CHAPTER THREE. THE INTEGRITY OF SECONDARY CAUSES
A Pre-Modern Taxonomy of Causality
Secondary Causes in Turretin and Gale
Secondary Causes in Puritanism: Two Traditions
Antinomianism and Edwards’s Early Published Sermons
The Development of Anti-Antinomianism in Edwards’s Early Revival Writings
Secondary Causes in the Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Diverse Traditions and Intersecting Discourses: Edwards’s Mature View
CHAPTER FOUR. HABITUATION AND THE WILL’S LIMITED FREEDOM
Edwards’s Conception of the Will and Reformed Historiography
A Kind of Compatibilism
The Arminian Position Defined
Edwardsean Freedom as Limited Dispositional Enhancement in the Future
Habit and Freedom in Edwards and Aristotle
Edwards and Mastricht on Freedom and Secondary Causes
CHAPTER FIVE. COMPLICATING PERSEVERANCE
The Perseverance of the Saints as a Theological Crossroads
Divesting Salvation from Assurance—I
Divesting Salvation from Assurance—II
God’s Maintenance of Assurance and Salvation—I
God’s Maintenance of Assurance and Salvation—II
Complicating the Established Canon as Context
Justification, Sanctification and Perseverance in the ‘Miscellanies’
Perseverance as a Convergence Point in the Edwardsean Corpus
CHAPTER SIX. CHURCH COMMUNITY ASPROVIDENTIAL AND PRUDENTIAL
Sharpening the Distinguishing Features of Those ‘In Favor With God’
Discernment and Prudence as Edwardsean Cardinal Virtues
Edwards’s Perfectionist Ecclesiology: Puzzles and Prospects
The Church as Polis: Discernment and Prudence as Inescapably Social
The Logic of Virtue: Conversion, Assurance, Second Causes, Perseverance
CONCLUSION
The Contemporary Connotations of Virtue
The Multiple Valences of Edwardsean Virtue
The Problem of Canon and the Problem of Edwards’s Intellectual Development
Edwards’s Intellectual Development Through the Lens of the ‘Miscellanies’
Reading Edwards Against Himself
Edwards’s Continuing Significance
WORKS CITED
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES
INDEX OF NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES