عنوان

Jonathan Edwards, The Ethics of Virtue and Public Theology

شماره

LA113092

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Jonathan Edwards, The Ethics of Virtue and Public Theology

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Frederick Guyette

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In The Nature of True Virtue, Jonathan Edwards does not deny that common morality is important; benevolence, beauty, conscience, justice, love for family and country are all threads in the fabric of a common morality. Without love for God as their chief end, however, the 'virtues' of common morality do not rise to the level of true virtue. This incommensurability can be problematic for Christian ethics in the public square. Edwards understood his project within the horizon of a commonwealth founded on Christian faith, but modern liberal democracies envision a different relationship between religious discourse and public life. In these contexts, so different from Edwards' setting, pluralism and tolerance are among the keys to a peaceful pursuit of the common good. With these differences in view, then, I explore what contribution Edwards' work on virtue might make to the practice of public theology in the areas of environmental ethics, bioethics and immigration policy. In The Nature of True Virtue, Jonathan Edwards does not deny that common morality is important; benevolence, beauty, conscience, justice, love for family and country are all threads in the fabric of a common morality. Without love for God as their chief end, however, the 'virtues' of common morality do not rise to the level of true virtue. This incommensurability can be problematic for Christian ethics in the public square. Edwards understood his project within the horizon of a commonwealth founded on Christian faith, but modern liberal democracies envision a different relationship between religious discourse and public life. In these contexts, so different from Edwards' setting, pluralism and tolerance are among the keys to a peaceful pursuit of the common good. With these differences in view, then, I explore what contribution Edwards' work on virtue might make to the practice of public theology in the areas of environmental ethics, bioethics and immigration policy.

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

158-174

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

4/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

bioethics

اصطلاح موضوعی

environmental ethics

اصطلاح موضوعی

immigration

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jonathan Edwards

اصطلاح موضوعی

public theology

اصطلاح موضوعی

virtue ethics

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Frederick Guyette

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156973210X491877

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y