The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards

"A generation before the Yale edition of Edwards' works was completed,

Harvey Townsend put together some of the most important entries in the

'Miscellanies' notebooks, arranged thematically, together with Edwards'

early works 'Of Being' and 'The Mind'. This volume represents an important

resource for those interested in Edwards' philosophy, that has long been out of print. Its reissue is a valuable contribution to the Edwards

Classic Studies Series."



Oliver D. Crisp, University of Bristol, UK





"This compendium of Edwards' purely philosophical writings, unalloyed by theological controversy or polemical intent, enables us to trace the line of Edwards' ongoing philosophical development. Townsend gives us Edwards the metaphysician (and as such, according to him, is Edwards' chief claim on our attention), whose inspiration lies in the natural philosophy of Newton, the moral philosophy of Locke, and the speculations of the Cambridge Platonists."



Richard A.S. Hall

University of North Carolina, Fayettville