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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. In this book, Protestant theology is approached 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 focuses particularly on the way in which 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. These center aro

Who reads Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)?

Author

Vos, Pieter (author)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; T&T Clark

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567695109

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Philosophy