Moral Character, Reformed Theology, and Jonathan Edwards
Reformed theology is often thought to be antipathetic to virtue theory. However, Jonathan Edwards is a counterexample to this way of thinking. In this article, I offer an account of Edwards’s moral thought as a case study of Reformed theology that is also a species of virtue theory, focusing on what...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Jahr: 2017, Band: 30, Heft: 3, Seiten: 262-277 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KDD Evangelische Kirche NBA Dogmatik NCB Individualethik |
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Holy Spirit
B Character B infused grace B Jonathan Edwards B Virtue Theory B Reformed Theology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Reformed theology is often thought to be antipathetic to virtue theory. However, Jonathan Edwards is a counterexample to this way of thinking. In this article, I offer an account of Edwards’s moral thought as a case study of Reformed theology that is also a species of virtue theory, focusing on what he says about the formation of character. I argue that key doctrinal commitments drive his moral theology, and generate some interesting problems for his ethics. Although his work is not without shortcomings, Edwards is a thinker whose moral theology might be usefully repaired and retrieved by contemporary theologians in the Reformed tradition for whom ‘duties are founded on doctrines’. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946817701042 |