Receptive Human Virtues

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. An Ethic of Receptive Human Virtues

2. Love as Necessary and Volitional: Edwards’s Account of True Virtue in God

3. Charity as a Human Virtue: The Moral Accountability of a Necessary Nature

4. Humility as a Human Virtue: Imaging God’s Mercy Through Creaturely Capacities

5. Virtuous Repentance: Apprehending and Approving God’s Moral Excellence

6. Justice and Partial Loves: The Natural Goodness of Incomplete Virtues

Conclusion Virtues, Accountability, and Dependence: Edwards’s Significance for Contemporary Christian Ethics

Notes

Works Cited

Index

“Cochran presents a creative, concise, and lucid account that deserves serious consideration by historians, theologians, and ethicists.”

—B. M. Stephens, Choice