Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

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Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics is written by Elizabeth Agnew Cochran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567671364 (ISBN 10) and 9780567671363 (ISBN 13).

The Stoics are known to have been a decisive influence on early Christian moral thought, but the import of this influence for contemporary Christian ethics has been underexplored. Elizabeth Agnew Cochran argues that attention to the Stoics enriches a Christian understanding of the virtues, illuminating precisely how historical Protestant theology gives rise to a distinctive virtue ethic. Through examining the dialogue between Roman Stoic ethics and the work of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards, Cochran illuminates key theological convictions that provide a foundation for a contemporary Protestant virtue ethic, consistent with theological beliefs characteristic of the historical Reformed tradition.