RT Article
T1 BRICOLAGE AND THE PURITY OF TRADITIONS: Engaging the Stoics for Contemporary Christian Ethics
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 40
IS 4
SP 720
OP 729
A1 Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew 1977-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822387965
AB This essay is a response to C. Kavin Rowe's critique of my 2011 argument that certain dimensions of Roman Stoic ethics are at work in Jonathan Edwards's moral thought. Rowe raises questions about the act of selectively retrieving ideas from a philosophical tradition to support constructive work in another tradition. I argue for the importance of acknowledging how Christian thought has been shaped by what Jeffrey Stout describes as moral bricolage, the selective retrieval of ideas from various traditions, and I contend that this bricolage can continue to be a fruitful means through which Christian ethics engages external traditions. Moreover, the importance of Stoicism's retrieval in early modern philosophy makes the work of eighteenth-century theologians such as Edwards a particularly valuable resource for exploring the plausibility of Christian engagement with the Stoics.
K1 Jonathan Edwards
K1 Tradition
K1 Bricolage
K1 Virtue
K1 Stoicism
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00545.x