TY - BOOK AU - Cochran,Elizabeth Agnew TI - Receptive human virtues: a new reading of Jonathan Edwards's ethics SN - 9780271050591 (electronic bk.) AV - BV4630 .C62 2011eb U1 - 241/.0458092 22 PY - 2011/// CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Edwards, Jonathan, KW - Virtues KW - Christian ethics KW - United States KW - Puritan authors KW - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; 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 N2 - "An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards"--Provided by publisher UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=438353 ER -