Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; T&T Clark
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780567671356
Subjects: Luther, martin, 1483-1546; Calvin, jean, 1509-1564; Edwards, jonathan, 1703-1758; Christian ethics; Protestantism; Stoics; Virtue and virtues
Description: "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.