Protestant virtue and Stoic ethics / edited by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977- editor.

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:

1 online resource (x, 222 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.

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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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 (pages 199-210) and index.

ISBN:

9780567671370

0567671372

9780567671387

0567671380

9780567671363

0567671364

OCLC:

1166396412