Receptive Human Virtues

Receptive Human Virtues

by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/08/2015

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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.

ISBN:
9780271073798
9780271073798
Category:
Christian theology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-08-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penn State University Press

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