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The Nature of True Virtue

by Jonathan Edwards · 1960

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What does it mean to be virtuous? How is virtue connected to the love of God? These are the questions Jonathan Edwards sets out to answer in his dissertation on the nature of true virtue.

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adult
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short · 107 pages

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