Virtue reformed : : rereading Jonathan Edwards's ethics / / by Stephen A. Wilson.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 132
• VerfasserIn: Wilson, Stephen A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2005.; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 132.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Re-reading Edwards’s Ethics /; Chapter One: The Ubiquity of the Practical Syllogism /; Chapter Two: The Holy Spirit’s Tenancy Expanded /; Chapter Three: The Integrity of Secondary Causes /; Chapter Four: Habituation and the Will’s Limited Freedom /; Chapter Five: Complicating Perseverance /; Chapter Six: Church Community as Providential and Prudential /; Conclusion /; Works Cited /; Index of Names /; Subject Index /; Index of Biblical Studies /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9047416252
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Stephen A. Wilson.

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.