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Reformed virtue after Barth : developing moral virtue ethics in the reformed tradition / Kirk J. Nolan ; book and cover design by Drew Stevens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nolan, Kirk J., author.
- Series:
- Columbia series in Reformed theology.
- Columbia Series in Reformed Theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics.
- Virtue.
- Reformed Church--Doctrines.
- Reformed Church.
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968.
- Barth, Karl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With its focus on the traditions and communities that form us over the course of a lifetime, virtue ethics has richly expanded our understanding of what the Christian life can look like. Yet its emphasis on human virtues and habits of mind and life seems inconsistent with the Reformed tradition's insistence that sin lies at the heart of the human condition. For this reason, virtue ethics seems out of place in Reformed theology, especially in the company of the Reformed tradition's greatest twentieth-century theologian, Karl Barth. In this new addition to the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, Kirk Nolan argues that Barth's theology actually proves virtue ethics can be compatible with the Reformed tradition. Rather than see virtue as an inevitable and natural process of growth, Barth helps us understand that development in the Christian life comes through a process of repetition and renewal, and that all virtue comes solely as a gift from God. Nolan establishes an important bridge between Reformed moral teaching and the tradition of virtue ethics.
- Contents:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611645439
- 1611645433
- OCLC:
- 923512861
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