Dissertation on Predestination and Grace

✍ Scribed by G. W. Leibniz (editor); Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (editor); Daniel Garber (editor); George Wright (editor); Michael J. Murray (editor)

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book G. W. Leibniz presents not only his reflections on predestination and election but also a more detailed account of the problem of evil than is found in any of his other works apart from the Theodicy. Surprisingly, his Dissertation on Predestination and Grace has never before been published in any form. Michael J. Murray's project of translating, editing, and providing commentary for the volume will therefore attract great interest among scholars and students of Leibniz's philosophy and theology. Leibniz addresses such topics as free will, moral responsibility, divine causation, justice, punishment, divine foreknowledge, and human freedom, revealing crucial aspects of the genesis of his mature metaphysics and the theological motivations behind it.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
A Note on the Texts and Translations
Introduction
Article XVII of and Burnet’s Commentary on The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England
Leibniz’s Commentary on Burnet
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of Names
Index of Subjects