ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book seeks a historically informed philosophical analysis of the principles and phases of Edwards’s metaphysics of divinity. It explicates and evaluates his argument for the beginning of existence and proceeds from a principle of existence that whatever begins to exist must have a cause to the conclusion that a cause immediately occasions whatever begins to exist at each moment. The book turns to Jonathan Edwards's account for predication of ‘natural and moral attributes’ to divinity on the basis of a distinction between natural and moral goods and a twofold likeness of divinity in humanity.
