ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that one of the main reasons Sang Hyun Lee offers for Jonathan Edwards's supposed departure from the tradition is simply mistaken – and Edwards would have known it was mistaken. For all the merits of Lee's work it is simply mistaken in its main thesis. Edwards did not need a dispositional ontology, and he did not use a dispositional ontology. The dispute about the filioque, and the Western tradition, was still a standard part of the Reformed Orthodox theological tradition that Edwards inherited. A fundamental problem with Lee's position is that his account of God, or rather his account of Edwards's doctrine of God, very difficult to believe in. Christian theology has been thoroughly infected by Greek metaphysics, and a whole raft of concepts that are alien to the God of the Gospel have become standard in discussions of the divine attributes.
