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Virtue Reformed
Rereading Jonathan Edwards's Ethics
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
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Much of the previous fifty years of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) has circumscribed his ethical thought either within narrow interpretations of Calvinist theology or the philosophy of the “moral sense.” The mutually exclusive nature of each perspective has distorted the importance Edwards granted human abilities in the salvation process and the demanding moral standards he thought were uniquely defining of Christians. Building on new interest in Protestant scholasticism, Puritan “precisionism,” and virtue ethics, Virtue Reformed recalibrates the scholarly stalemate with a comprehensive rereading of both major published treatises and lesser-known discourses. The result is a fresh portrait of a fascinating eighteenth-century figure’s struggle to be both a forwarder of the Reformation and a participant in the Enlightenment.
Author / Editor information
Stephen A. Wilson, Ph.D. (1999) in Religious Studies, Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College. He recently co-edited and contributed to a focus volume of the Journal of Religious Ethics (2003) on the ethics of Jonathan Edwards.
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eBook published on:
October 1, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9789047416258
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Main content:
406
eBook ISBN:
9789047416258
Keywords for this book
Jonathan; Edwards; virtue; Christian; ethics; Calvinism; Scholasticism; Enlightenment; moral; sense; benevolence; puritanism; philosophy
Audience(s) for this book
Anyone interested in scholasticism, Reformed theology, Enlightenment moral philosophy, American religion, and the 17th and 18th century transatlantic world of ideas. Most appropriate for academic libraries, specialists, and graduate students.
