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Receptive human virtues : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11621775Publication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271050591
  • 0271050594
  • 9780271055312
  • 0271055316
  • 027104845X
  • 9780271048451
  • 0271050543
  • 9780271050546
  • 9780271073798
  • 0271073799
  • 0271053615
  • 9780271053615
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Receptive human virtues.DDC classification:
  • 241/.0458092 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4630 .C62 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
An ethic of receptive human virtues -- Love as necessary and volitional : Edwards's account of true virtue in God -- Charity as a human virtue : the moral accountability of a necessary nature -- Humility as a human virtue : imaging God's mercy through creaturely capacities -- Virtuous repentance : apprehending and approving God's moral excellence -- Justice and partial loves : the natural goodness of incomplete virtues -- Conclusion: Virtues, accountability, and dependence : Edwards's significance for contemporary Christian ethics.
Summary: "An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)438353

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007 under title: Revelations of love and operations of grace : Jonathan Edwards' human virtues.

"An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.

An ethic of receptive human virtues -- Love as necessary and volitional : Edwards's account of true virtue in God -- Charity as a human virtue : the moral accountability of a necessary nature -- Humility as a human virtue : imaging God's mercy through creaturely capacities -- Virtuous repentance : apprehending and approving God's moral excellence -- Justice and partial loves : the natural goodness of incomplete virtues -- Conclusion: Virtues, accountability, and dependence : Edwards's significance for contemporary Christian ethics.

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English.