Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

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"This book examines the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for constructing a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic consistent with a number of theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition. Building on this conversation, this book develops the claims that faith holds a unique value among possible moral goods; virtue has a unity that coincides with a soteriology that conceives justification as radically transforming a Christian from a sinner to one who is righteous before God; and moral responsibility is realized through a dispositional consent to God's loving providence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

subjects: Luther, martin, 1483-1546,  Calvin, jean, 1509-1564,  Edwards, jonathan, 1703-1758,  Christian ethics,  Protestantism,  Stoics,  Virtue and virtues,  Protestant churches,  Doctrines,  Reformed Church,  Ethics,  Virtue