Receptive human virtues : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics /

"An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.
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Table of 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.