Receptive Human Virtues
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Receptive Human Virtues

A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

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Receptive Human Virtues

A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

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This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as "virtues" and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards's human virtues is "receptive" in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving divine grace, and therefore depend utterly on Edwards's God for virtue's acquisition. By contending that humans remain authentic moral agents even as they are unable to attain virtue apart from his God's assistance, Edwards challenges contemporary conceptions of moral responsibility, which tend to emphasize human autonomy as a central part of accountability.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271050591
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues
  8. Chapter 2:Love as Necessary and Volitional
  9. Chapter 3: Charity as a Human Virtue
  10. Chapter 4: Humility as a Human Virtue
  11. Chapter 5: Virtuos Repentance
  12. Chapter 6: Justice and Partial Loves
  13. Conclusion : Virtues, Accountability, and Dependence
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover