Protestant virtue and Stoic ethics / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977- author.

Series:

T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics

T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Protestant churches--Doctrines.

Protestant churches.

Reformed Church--Doctrines.

Reformed Church.

Stoics.

Ethics.

Virtue.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

This book examines the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for constructing a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic consistent with a number of theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition. Building on this conversation, this book develops the claims that faith holds a unique value among possible moral goods; virtue has a unity that coincides with a soteriology that conceives justification as radically transforming a Christian from a sinner to one who is righteous before God; and moral responsibility is realized through a dispositional consent to God's loving providence.

Contents:

Protestant virtue ethics and the retrieval of the stoics

A Roman stoic ethic of assent

The primacy of faith in a Protestant virtue ethic

Conversion, transformation, and Christian progress: Protestant soteriology and the formation of moral character

Providence, necessity, and the human will: moral agency in historical protestant ethics

Future prospects for Protestant virtue ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Protestant virtue and Stoic ethics.

ISBN:

9780567671356

0567671356

OCLC:

982008803

Publisher Number:

99975328617