02602nam a2200481Ka 4500 ocn779850774 OCoLC 20200709055501.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 120312s2011 pau ob s001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780271050591 (electronic bk.) 0271050594 (electronic bk.) 9780271037523 0271037520 (OCoLC)779850774 438353 (N$T) n-us--- BV4630 .C62 2011eb REL 067070 bisacsh 241/.0458092 22 N$TA Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977- Receptive human virtues [electronic resource] : a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics / Elizabeth Agnew Cochran. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. 1 online resource (xii, 203 p.) 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. "An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index. 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. Description based on print version record. Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Virtues. Christian ethics United States. Christian ethics Puritan authors. RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Cochran, Elizabeth Agnew, 1977- Receptive human virtues. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011 9780271037523 (DLC) 2010020624 (OCoLC)634739579 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=438353 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51001 51001