Receptive Human Virtues A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics / [Recurso electrónico] :
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xii, 203 p. )
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
"An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher.
9780271053615 0271053615
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
Christian ethics--Puritan authors. Christian ethics--United States. Virtues.