Protestant virtue and Stoic ethics /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Series:T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics.
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Table of 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.