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A Theodicy

by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Section I — The Failure of Plato and Other Ancient Philosophers to…
  4. 4Section II — The Failure of Leibnitz Not a Ground of Despair
  5. 5Section III — The System of the Moral Universe Not Purposely Involv…
  6. 6Section IV — The Littleness of the Human Mind a Ground of Hope
  7. 7Section V — The Construction of a Theodicy, Not an Attempt to Solve…
  8. 8Section VI — The Spirit in Which the Following Work Has Been Prosec…
  9. 9Part I — The Existence of Moral Evil, or Sin, Consistent With the H…
  10. 10Chapter I — The Scheme of Necessity Denies That Man Is Responsible…
  11. 11Section I — The Attempts of Calvin and Luther to Reconcile the Sche…
  12. 12Section II — The Manner in Which Hobbes, Collins, and Others, Endea…
  13. 13Section III — The Sentiments of Descartes, Spinoza, and Malebranche…
  14. 14Section IV — The Views of Locke, Tucker, Hartley, Priestley, Helvet…
  15. 15Section V — The Manner in Which Leibnitz Endeavours to Reconcile Li…
  16. 16Section VI
  17. 17Section VII — The Sentiments of Hume, Brown, Comte, and Mill, in Re…
  18. 18Section VIII — The Views of Kant and Sir William Hamilton in Relati…
  19. 19Section IX — The Notion of Lord Kames and Sir James Mackintosh on t…
  20. 20Section X — The Conclusion of Mœhler, Tholuck, and Others, That All…
  21. 21Section XI — The True Conclusion From the Foregoing Review of Opini…
  22. 22Chapter II — The Scheme of Necessity Makes God the Author of Sin
  23. 23Section I — The Attempts of Calvin and Other Reformers to Show That…
  24. 24Section II — The Attempt of Leibnitz to Show That the Scheme of Nec…
  25. 25Section III — The Maxims Adopted and Employed by Edwards to Show Th…
  26. 26Section IV — The Attempts of Dr. Emmons and Dr. Chalmers to Reconci…
  27. 27Chapter III — Scheme of Necessity Denies the Reality of Moral Disti…
  28. 28Section I — The Views of Spinoza in Relation to the Reality of Mora…
  29. 29Section II — The Attempt of Edwards to Reconcile the Scheme of Nece…
  30. 30Section III — Of the Proposition That “The Essence of the Virtue an…
  31. 31Section IV — The Scheme of Necessity Seems to Be Inconsistent With…
  32. 32Chapter IV — The Moral World Not Constituted According to the Schem…
  33. 33Section I — The Scheme of Necessity Is Based on a False Psychology
  34. 34Section II — The Scheme of Necessity Is Directed Against a False Issue
  35. 35Section III — The Scheme of Necessity Is Supported by False Logic
  36. 36Section IV — The Scheme of Necessity Is Fortified by False Conceptions
  37. 37Section V — The Scheme of Necessity Is Recommended by False Analogies
  38. 38Section VI — The Scheme of Necessity Is Rendered Plausible by a Fal…
  39. 39Section VII — The Scheme of Necessity Originates in a False Method,…
  40. 40Chapter V — The Relation Between the Human Will and the Divine Agency
  41. 41Section I — General View of the Relation Between the Divine and the…
  42. 42Section II — The Pelagian Platform, or View of the Relation Between…
  43. 43Section III — The Augustinian Platform, or View of the Relation Bet…
  44. 44Section IV — The Views of Those Who, in Later Times, Have Symbolize…
  45. 45Section V — The Danger of Mistaking Distorted for Exalted Views of…
  46. 46Chapter VI — The Existence of Moral Evil, or Sin, Reconciled With t…
  47. 47Section I — The Hypothesis of the Soul’s Preëxistence
  48. 48Section II — The Hypothesis of the Manicheans
  49. 49Section III — The Hypothesis of Optimism
  50. 50Section IV — The Argument of the Atheist — The Reply of Leibnitz an…
  51. 51Section V — The Sophism of the Atheist Exploded, and a Perfect Agre…
  52. 52Section VI — The True and Only Foundation of Optimism
  53. 53Section VII — The Glory of God Seen in the Creation of a World, Whi…
  54. 54Section VIII — The Little, Captious Spirit of Voltaire, and Other A…
  55. 55Chapter VII — Objections Considered
  56. 56Section I — It May Be Objected That the Foregoing Scheme Is “New Th…
  57. 57Section II — It May Be Imagined That the Views Herein Set Forth Lim…
  58. 58Section III — The Foregoing Scheme, It May Be Said, Presents a Gloo…
  59. 59Section IV — It May Be Alleged, That in Refusing to Subject the Vol…
  60. 60Section V — The Foregoing Treatise May Be Deemed Inconsistent With…
  61. 61Section VI
  62. 62Part II — The Existence of Natural Evil, or Suffering, Consistent W…
  63. 63Chapter I — God Desires and Seeks the Salvation of All Men
  64. 64Section I — The Reason Why Theologians Have Concluded That God Desi…
  65. 65Section II — The Attempt of Howe to Reconcile the Eternal Ruin of a…
  66. 66Section III — The Views of Luther and Calvin Respecting the Sinceri…
  67. 67Chapter II — Natural Evil, or Suffering, and Especially the Sufferi…
  68. 68Section I — All Suffering Not a Punishment for Sin
  69. 69Section II — The Imputation of Sin Not Consistent With the Goodness…
  70. 70Section III — The Imputation of Sin Not Consistent With Human, Much…
  71. 71Section IV — The True Ends, or Final Causes, of Natural Evil
  72. 72Section V — The Importance of Harmonizing Reason and Revelation
  73. 73Chapter III — The Sufferings of Christ Reconciled With the Goodness…
  74. 74Section I — The Sufferings of Christ Not Unnecessary
  75. 75Section II — The Sufferings of Christ a Bright Manifestation of the…
  76. 76Section III — The Objections of Dr. Channing, and Other Unitarians,…
  77. 77Chapter IV — The Eternal Punishment of the Wicked Reconciled With t…
  78. 78Section I — The False Grounds Upon Which the Doctrine of the Eterni…
  79. 79Section II — The Unsound Principles From Which, If True, the Fallac…
  80. 80Section III — The Eternity of Future Punishments an Expression of t…
  81. 81Chapter V — The Dispensation of the Divine Favours Reconciled With…
  82. 82Section I — The Unequal Distribution of Favours, Which Obtains in t…
  83. 83Section II — The Scripture Doctrine of Election Consistent With the…
  84. 84Section III — The Calvinistic Scheme of Election Inconsistent With…
  85. 85Section IV — The True Ground and Reason of Election to Eternal Life…
  86. 86Conclusion
  87. 87Chapter I — Summary of the First Part of the Foregoing System
  88. 88Section I — The Scheme of Necessity Denies That Man Is the Responsi…
  89. 89Section II — The Scheme of Necessity Makes God the Author of Sin
  90. 90Section III — The Scheme of Necessity Denies the Reality of Moral D…
  91. 91Section IV — The Moral World Not Constituted According to the Schem…
  92. 92Section V — The Relation Between the Human Agency and the Divine
  93. 93Section VI — The Existence of Moral Evil Consistent With the Infini…
  94. 94Chapter II — Summary of the Second Part of the Foregoing System
  95. 95Section I — God Desires the Salvation of All Men
  96. 96Section II — The Sufferings of the Innocent, and Especially of Infa…
  97. 97Section III — The Sufferings of Christ Consistent With the Divine G…
  98. 98Section IV — The Eternity of Future Punishment Consistent With the…
  99. 99Section V — The True Doctrine of Election and Predestination Consis…
  100. 100Section VI — The Question Submitted

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