Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, "Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics "
English | ISBN: 0567671356 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0567671356 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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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