Edwards’s Affectional Ethics

Paul Helm

Professor Paul Helm taught at Liverpool for 29 years before moving to a Chair in History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London. He has also held Chairs in Canada and Scotland. His voluminous writings range over philosophy of religion, early-modern philosophy, and the history of Calvinism. He has published with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Eerdmans, T&T Clark, and IVP. In particular, he has published on the philosophy and theology of Jonathan Edwards, including in Jonathan Edwards Studies. Further details about Paul Helm may be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Helm. Further details about Jonathan Edwards may be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian). Further details about the Jonathan-Edwards Center, Yale, of which the UK centre is a satellite, may be found at http://edwards.yale.edu/about-us.

Paul has given us the title ‘Edwards’s Affectional Ethics’. He plans to look at the two standpoints from which Edwards treats ethics in his writings: ethics from the point of view of  the ‘vulgar’, his people in the pews of Northampton, and ethics from the point of view of the ‘learned’, the academic theorists he searched out, such as Hutcheson.

There is scheduled to be time for questions and discussion, and we intend to provide refreshments.

Entrance is free for all. Please e-mail [email protected] if you plan to attend.