Religious Studies
- Religious Studies / Volume 46 / Issue 01 / March 2010, pp 1-20
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034412509990308 (About DOI), Published online: 20 January 2010
Articles
Jonathan Edwards's ontology: a critique of Sang Hyun Lee's dispositional account of Edwardsian metaphysics
OLIVER D. CRISPa1 c1
a1 School of Humanities, University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB
Abstract
Sang Hyun Lee's account of Jonathan Edwards's ontology has become the benchmark of many recent discussions of Edwards's thought. In this paper, I argue that this Lee interpretation is flawed in several crucial respects. In place of Lee's understanding of Edwards I offer an account of Edwards's work according to which Edwards is an idealist-occasionalist, but not an advocate of a purely dispositional ontology of creation.
Correspondence:
c1 e-mail: oliver.crisp@bristol.ac.uk
