TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cochran,Elizabeth Agnew
TI  - Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics 
SN  - 9780271050591
AV  - BV4630 .C62 2011
U1  - 241/.0458092 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Puritan authors
KW  - United States
KW  - Virtues
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues --; 2 Love as Necessary and Volitional: --; 3 Charity as a Human Virtue: --; 4 Humility as a Human Virtue: --; 5 Virtuous Repentance: --; 6 Justice and Partial Loves: --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271050591?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271050591
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271050591/original
ER  -