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100 1 _aVos, Pieter,
_d1970-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aLonging for the Good Life :
_bVirtue Ethics After Protestantism /
_cPieter Vos.
264 1 _aLondon, UK ;
_aNew York, NY, USA :
_bT&T Clark,
_c2020.
300 _a209 p. ;
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aT&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aChristian ethics.
650 0 _aVirtue.
650 0 _aProtestant churches
_xDoctrines.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aVos, Pieter, 1970-
_tLonging for the good life
_dLondon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : T&T Clark, 2020.
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