Calvinists among the Virtues: Reformed Theological Contributions to Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Since virtue and the virtues have been important in Reformed theology for most of its history, this essay is devoted to the question of how this tradition may contribute to and interact with contemporary virtue ethics (MacIntyre, Hauerwas). Reformed concepts of sanctification as open to moral growth...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2015
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-212 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Grace
B Reformed Theology B Virtue Ethics B natural virtues B Moral Growth |
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| Summary: | Since virtue and the virtues have been important in Reformed theology for most of its history, this essay is devoted to the question of how this tradition may contribute to and interact with contemporary virtue ethics (MacIntyre, Hauerwas). Reformed concepts of sanctification as open to moral growth, covenant as a narrative context of divine commandments, and unio cum Christo as defining human teleology and virtuousness provide valuable contributions to the development of such an ethics. On the other hand, Reformed conceptions of (social) reform, natural law, common grace (Calvin) and christological eschatology (Barth) offer theological arguments for overcoming Hauerwas’s problematic overemphasis on the distinctiveness of the church’s ethic. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946815570595 |