Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew,  1977- <br/><br/>
Receptive human virtues  a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics /  [electronic resource] : 
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran. 
 - University Park, Pa. :  Pennsylvania State University Press,  c2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 203 p.) 
<br/><br/> Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007 under title: Revelations of love and operations of grace : Jonathan Edwards' human virtues. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index. 
<br/><br/>An ethic of receptive human virtues -- Love as necessary and volitional : Edwards's account of true virtue in God -- Charity as a human virtue : the moral accountability of a necessary nature -- Humility as a human virtue : imaging God's mercy through creaturely capacities -- Virtuous repentance : apprehending and approving God's moral excellence -- Justice and partial loves : the natural goodness of incomplete virtues -- Conclusion: Virtues, accountability, and dependence : Edwards's significance for contemporary Christian ethics. 
<br/><br/> "An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271050591 (electronic bk.) 0271050594 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Virtues.<br/>Christian ethics--United States.<br/>Christian ethics--Puritan authors.<br/>RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV4630  / .C62 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>241/.0458092