American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0325 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Edwards Beyond the Sermon
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The idea
Before his teens Edwards refuted materialism and wrote a study of the flying spider; he entered Yale at thirteen. He read Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which grounded knowledge in experience, and argued from it that grace is felt as well as believed.
In practice
A naturalist, a philosopher, and a preacher.
Where people slip
The sermon is famous; the philosophy matters more.
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