Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation

‘His death belongs to them’: an Edwardsean participatory model of atonement

“…21.Edwards did not invent this metaphysics as a response to this problem; he had consistently asserted it throughout much of his career. See Crisp (2012), 25.…”

“…27.For more on this position, see Helm (2003), 50–55 and Crisp (2012) 25–26. Michael Rea has proposed a variant on this view known as ‘fission theory’, which builds on stage theory to suggest that one or more temporal stages could be shared by more than one four-dimensional individual.…”

“…42.On the status of the Miscellanies and other unpublished works, compared to Edwards's writings intended for publication, see Crisp (2012), 3–5.…”

“…He states that they do at WJE XXI, 146, but he seems to distinguish them from ‘mere modes or relations’ at WJE XXI, 131. On this, see Crisp (2012), 127–135 and Pauw (2002), 73. Here, I assume for simplicity's sake that the individuating properties are all relations.…”

“…A full examination of Edwards's Trinitarian theology, the nature of which has long been a matter of dispute, is well outside the scope of this article. For a discussion of the points considered here, see Crisp (2012), 120–127.…”