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Jonathan Edwards (1703­1758) is widely regarded as America's most important and original philosophical theologian. Edwards on God presents an historically informed and philosophically rigorous account of his philosophical arguments about God. Sebastian Rehnman takes account of not only Edwards's immediate intellectual context but also the older tradition to which he belonged, and explores Edward's philosophical theology with the tools of modern philosophy. Readers interested in Edwards, history of ideas, metaphysics and especially the metaphysics of God will find this new contribution invaluable.

This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed Church which made it negative to natural theology. First it is shown that there was an early and unanimous adoption of natural theology as the culmination of physics and the beginning of metaphysics by sixteenth and seventeenth century philosophers of good standing in the reformed Church. Second it is argued that natural theology cannot be based on revelation, should not assume a peculiar analysis of knowledge and must not pass over demonstration.