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The Power of Contrary Choice

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Review of Wylie’s Sectarianism and Jonathan Edwards’ essay on the ‘power of contrary choice’, arguing the human will lacks a metaphysical ability to choose the contrary under identical motives; choice reflects moral state.
Archive ⬩ Anthropology (Doctrine of Man), Theological Method
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Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater (February 23, 1813 – February 17, 1883) was an American Presbyterian philosopher, theologian, and educator who served as a long-time professor of logic, moral and intellectual philosophy at the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and lectured at Princeton Theological Seminary. Born in Cedar Hill, New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale, ministered for twenty years in Fairfield, Connecticut, and became a prolific writer and contributor to The Princeton Review. Throughout his life he remained deeply involved in Presbyterian scholarship and church affairs, and was honored with an LL.D. from Yale in 1871.

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