Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

Professor Elizabeth Agnew Cochran (Duquesne University, USA)

Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 June 2019
Pages
232
ISBN
9780567689160

Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

Professor Elizabeth Agnew Cochran (Duquesne University, USA)

The Stoics are known to have been a decisive influence on early Christian moral thought, but the import of this influence for contemporary Christian ethics has been underexplored. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran argues that attention to the Stoics enriches a Christian understanding of the virtues, illuminating precisely how historical Protestant theology gives rise to a distinctive virtue ethic. Through examining the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards, Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic, consistent with theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition.

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