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Receptive human virtues : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics
Title
Receptive human virtues : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.
ISBN
9780271037523 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271037520 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xii, 203 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007 under title: Revelations of love and operations of grace : Jonathan Edwards' human virtues.
Summary
"An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.
Contents
An ethic of receptive human virtues
Love as necessary and volitional : Edwards's account of true virtue in God
Charity as a human virtue : the moral accountability of a necessary nature
Humility as a human virtue : imaging God's mercy through creaturely capacities
Virtuous repentance : apprehending and approving God's moral excellence
Justice and partial loves : the natural goodness of incomplete virtues
Conclusion: Virtues, accountability, and dependence : Edwards's significance for contemporary Christian ethics.
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