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A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World : ウィキペディア英語版 | A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World
''A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World'' is a work by Christian theologian, reformer, author, and pastor Jonathan Edwards that was started in the mid-1750s but not finally published until after his death in 1765.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The End for Which God Created the World (1765) )〕 This dissertation was published concurrently with ''The Nature of True Virtue'', and the two works have much in common, specifically the assertion that God's aim in creating the world was not human happiness but his own glory. ==Synopsis==
Edwards argues against the people of his day that claimed that human happiness was the end for which God created the world. Edwards instead puts forth the idea that the reason for God's creation of the world was not human happiness, but the magnification of his own glory and name.〔 Edwards then continues to argue that since true happiness comes from God alone, human happiness is an extension of God's glory, and that there are "ultimate" ends and "chief" ends, but they all end at the same conclusion. Edwards, like in ''Virtue'', discusses how there is no true happiness without being happy in God.〔〔
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