ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a context for a historically informed philosophical analysis of Jonathan Edwards’s metaphysics of God. It aims at explicating and evaluating Edwards’s argument 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 clarifies and assesses Edwards’s design argument. It is devoted to an argument in which Edwards argues either God or nothing, but since nothing cannot be supposed, thus God. The chapter explicates and evaluates Edwards’s ‘proof of God’s virtue’. It aims at analysis and assessment of Edwards’s account of predicating 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.
