ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a detailed and charitable formulation of Jonathan Edwards's argumentation in WMU, where Edwards's sermon "Wicked Men Useful (WMU) in Their Destruction Only" presents a formal proof for the claim that the wicked are useful only in their destruction. It discusses the work by Jonathan Kvanvig in which he proposes that Edwards affirms a purely retributive approach to the justification of Hell. Edwards offers three arguments to support his claim that if the unfruitful are destroyed, they are rendered useful. Edwards argues that the "destruction" of the wicked is useful "for the glory of God's justice". On the other hand, it seems that for Edwards, for God's justice to be glorified is for one or more created beings to perceive and/or understand the Divine attribute of justice. The glory of divine justice in the perdition of ungodly men appears wonderful and glorious in the eyes of the saints and angels in heaven".
