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Author_Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
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Cochran
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ethics
grace
Jonathan Edwards
love
moral
moral responsibility
religion
theology
Virtue
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- ISBN 9780271048451
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran is Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University.
