Virtue Reformed: Rereading Jonathan Edwards's Ethics

Stephen Wilson

Virtue Reformed: Rereading Jonathan Edwards's Ethics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
Published
28 October 2005
Pages
406
ISBN
9789004143005

Virtue Reformed: Rereading Jonathan Edwards’s Ethics

Stephen Wilson

Much of the previous fifty years of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) has circumscribed his ethical thought either within narrow interpretations of Calvinist theology or the philosophy of the moral sense. The mutually exclusive nature of each perspective has distorted the importance Edwards granted human abilities in the salvation process and the demanding moral standards he thought were uniquely defining of Christians. Building on new interest in Protestant scholasticism, Puritan precisionism, and virtue ethics, Virtue Reformed recalibrates the scholarly stalemate with a comprehensive rereading of both major published treatises and lesser-known discourses. The result is a fresh portrait of a fascinating eighteenth-century figure’s struggle to be both a forwarder of the Reformation and a participant in the Enlightenment.

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