Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition. Building on this conversation, this book develops the claims that faith holds a unique value among possible moral goods; virtue has a unity that coincides with a soteriology that conceives justification as radically transforming a Christian from a sinner to one who is righteous before God; and moral responsibility is realized through a dispositional consent to God’s loving providence.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
1. Protestant Virtue Ethics and the Retrieval of the Stoics
2. A Roman Stoic Ethic of Assent
3. The Primacy of Faith in a Protestant Virtue Ethic
4. Conversion, Transformation, and Christian Progress: Protestant Soteriology and the Formation of Moral Character
5. Providence, Necessity, and the Human Will: Moral Agency in Historical Protestant Ethics
6. Emotions in the Virtuous Life
Conclusion: Future Prospects for Protestant Virtue Ethics
Works Cited
Index