Download or read book Virtue Reformed written by Stephen Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the previous fifty years of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) has circumscribed his ethical thought either within narrow interpretations of Calvinist theology or the philosophy of the “moral sense.” The mutually exclusive nature of each perspective has distorted the importance Edwards granted human abilities in the salvation process and the demanding moral standards he thought were uniquely defining of Christians. Building on new interest in Protestant scholasticism, Puritan “precisionism,” and virtue ethics, Virtue Reformed recalibrates the scholarly stalemate with a comprehensive rereading of both major published treatises and lesser-known discourses. The result is a fresh portrait of a fascinating eighteenth-century figure’s struggle to be both a forwarder of the Reformation and a participant in the Enlightenment.
Download or read book Reformed Virtue after Barth written by Kirk J. Nolan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on the traditions and communities that form us over the course of a lifetime, virtue ethics has richly expanded our understanding of what the Christian life can look like. Yet its emphasis on human virtues and habits of mind and life seems inconsistent with the Reformed tradition's insistence that sin lies at the heart of the human condition. For this reason, virtue ethics seems out of place in Reformed theology, especially in the company of the Reformed tradition's greatest twentieth-century theologian, Karl Barth. In this new addition to the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, Kirk Nolan argues that Barth's theology actually proves virtue ethics can be compatible with the Reformed tradition. Rather than see virtue as an inevitable and natural process of growth, Barth helps us understand that development in the Christian life comes through a process of repetition and renewal, and that all virtue comes solely as a gift from God. Nolan establishes an important bridge between Reformed moral teaching and the tradition of virtue ethics.
Download or read book Reformed Virtue After Barth written by Kirk J. Nolan and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on the traditions and communities that form us over the course of a lifetime, virtue ethics has richly expanded our understanding of what the Christian life can look like. Yet its emphasis on human virtues and habits of mind and life seems inconsistent with the Reformed tradition's insistence that sin lies at the heart of the human condition. For this reason, virtue ethics seems out of place in Reformed theology, especially in the company of the Reformed tradition's greatest twentieth-century theologian, Karl Barth. In this new addition to the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, Kirk Nolan argues that Barth's theology actually proves virtue ethics can be compatible with the Reformed tradition. Rather than see virtue as an inevitable and natural process of growth, Barth helps us understand that development in the Christian life comes through a process of repetition and renewal, and that all virtue comes solely as a gift from God. Nolan establishes an important bridge between Reformed moral teaching and the tradition of virtue ethics.
Download or read book Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue written by Uche Anizor and published by Lexham Academic. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Reformed giants in conversation Jonathan Edwards and Karl Barth are widely considered to be the greatest North American and Swiss theologians, respectively. Though situated in vastly different contexts and separated by nearly two hundred years, they shared intriguing similarities. Both employed exegesis, theology, and philosophy with ease. Both reasoned with unique quality, depth, and timelessness. Both resisted liberal shifts of their day while remaining creative thinkers. And both were Reformed without uncritically assuming the tradition. Edited by Uche Anizor and Kyle C. Strobel, Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue engages Edwards and Barth for constructive dogmatics. Each chapter brings these theologians into conversation on classic theological categories, such as the doctrine of God, atonement, and ecclesiology, as well as topics of particular interest to both, such as aesthetics and philosophy. As with all great theologians, Edwards and Barth continue to illuminate Christian doctrine. Readers will appreciate their rigor of thought and devotion to Christ.
Download or read book The Presbyterian and Reformed Review written by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".
Download or read book Earthkeeping and Character written by Steven Bouma-Prediger and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in it. Steven Bouma-Prediger brings ecotheology into conversation with the emerging field of environmental virtue ethics, exploring the character traits and virtues required for Christians to be responsible keepers of the earth and to flourish in the challenging decades to come. He shows how virtue ethics can enrich Christian environmentalism, helping readers think and act in ways that rightly value creation.
Download or read book Theological Virtue in Union with Christ written by Ashish Varma and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of Western church history, virtue theory has largely been the province of the Catholic Church. The marriage of Aquinas' dominant Christian virtue model with a medieval Catholic version of nature and grace has left post-Scholastic Protestants largely hesitant to enter the domain of virtue because of its seeming distance from the biblical narrative of salvation history and opposition to justification by faith alone. Yet with the onset of renewed interest in virtue theory in the twentieth century academy, some Protestants--namely, postliberals--began a retrieval of the virtue tradition. Rather than embed discussion in the medieval nature-grace framework, postliberals tended to build upon the postmodern innovation of narrative. Eventually, some Reformed theologians joined the retrieval. As the movement has picked up steam, though, to date no distinctly Reformed account of the economy of virtue has emerged to relieve the perceived tension between Reformed soteriological commitments and Thomist nature-grace foundations that remain dominant in Christian accounts of virtue. The present study seeks to fill this Reformed void, arguing for the economy of Christian virtue rooted in the doctrine of union with Christ by the Spirit.
Download or read book The Reformed Church Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reformed Dogmatics Volume 1 written by Herman Bavinck and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer the first volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics in English for the very first time. Bavinck's approach throughout is meticulous. As he discusses the standard topics of dogmatic theology, he stands on the shoulders of giants such as Augustine, John Calvin, Francis Turretin, and Charles Hodge. This masterwork will appeal to scholars and students of theology, research and theological libraries, and pastors and laity who read serious works of Reformed theology.
Download or read book In Praise of Virtue written by Benjamin Wirt Farley and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this resourceful and illuminating exploration of the biblical virtues, Benjamin W. Farley examines both the Old and the New Testament and applies their teachings on moral character to the Christian life today. In the process, Farley critically reviews the current philosophical and theological interest in virtue, engages the Aristotelian, Thomist, and modern views of virtue, incorporates and responds to feminist concerns, and discusses the importance of the biblical virtues for our pluralistic age.
Download or read book The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Longing for the Good Life Virtue Ethics after Protestantism written by Pieter Vos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.
Download or read book Spelling Reform Its Purpose and Progress written by John M. Mott and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought written by Risto Saarinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why people act against their better judgment has always been prominent in philosophy. Risto Saarinen presents the first study of ideas about weakness of the will between 1350 and 1650. He shows how the understanding of human conduct and free will changed in this formative period between medieval times and modernity.
Download or read book For the Beauty of the Earth written by Steven Bouma-Prediger and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.
Download or read book Reformed Reader written by George Stroup and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates a central conviction of the Reformed tradition--that theology must honor the historic witness of the church as catholic while being faithful to the new tasks of the present-day church. It offers selections from Reformed theology, creeds, confessions, and church documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book The Nature of True Virtue written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work in moral philosophy by the Puritan who was the most modern man of his age. "Edwards at his very greatest . . . he speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him." Perry Miller, 'Jonathan Edwards' Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as "true virtue" is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hellfire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.
