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Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

By: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

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Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

By: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

The Stoics are known to have been a decisive influence on early Christian moral thought, but the import of this influence for contemporary Christian ethics has been underexplored. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran argues that attention to the Stoics enriches a Christian understanding of the virtues, illuminating precisely how historical Protestant theology gives rise to a distinctive virtue ethic. Through examining the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards, Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic, consistent with theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition.

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229

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN 10

0567671372

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9780567671370

Receptive Human Virtues

A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

By: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

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Receptive Human Virtues

A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

By: Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards’s virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as “virtues” and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards’s human virtues is “receptive” in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving divine grace, and therefore depend utterly on Edwards’s God for virtue’s acquisition. By contending that humans remain authentic moral agents even as they are unable to attain virtue apart from his God’s assistance, Edwards challenges contemporary conceptions of moral responsibility, which tend to emphasize human autonomy as a central part of accountability.

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