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President Edwards and the Sage of Highgate: Determinism, Depravity, and the Supernatural Will
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 77, Number 1, January 2016
- pp. 27-47
- 10.1353/jhi.2016.0002
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Scarce attention has been given to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the philosophical theology of Jonathan Edwards, and yet a clear understanding of each thinker's position on determinism and Original Sin is of vital importance if we are understand the lasting significance of their disagreements. There have been a number of studies to take up Coleridge's influence on the American Romantics, but there is no scholarship that has taken into account how the reception of this influence was inflected both by the legacy of Edwards and by the critical response that his theology elicited from Coleridge.