Receptive human virtues : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics /
"An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.