Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: The Consequentialist Moral Cosmology
5. 1 God and Morality in the Seventeenth Century 25
6. 2 Virtue and the Divine Life: Henry More’s Moral Theology 51
7. 3 Teleology Transformed: Richard Cumberland’s Perfectionistic Natural Law 73
8. Epilogue to Part I 97
9. Part II: Evil and the Divine Consequentialist
10. 4 Evil and the Consequentialist Moral Cosmology: Pierre Bayle and British Ethics 105
11. 5 The Ethics of Archbishop William King’s De origine mali 125
12. 6 Shaftesbury the Theologian: Virtue as Friendship with God 147
13. 7 Theodicy and the Moral Affections in Francis Hutcheson 165
14. Epilogue to Part II 185
15. Part III: The Anglican Utilitarian Synthesis
16. 8 John Gay’s “Preliminary Dissertation” 191
17. 9 Edmund Law and the Anglican Utilitarian Tradition 213
18. Epilogue to Part III 235
19. Conclusion 243
20. Acknowledgments 263
21. Notes 267
22. Index 307