Call to Happiness

Eudaimonism in English Puritan Thought

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In The Call to Happiness, Nathaniel A. Warne examines how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritans adopted a eudaimonistic conception of ethics in their writings. He shows how classical eudaimonism within the Puritan context is related to other areas of theology, ethics, and politics, and that the idea of divine calling or vocation fits within Puritan eudaimonism. Warne further shows how work can also be understood as an aspect of human flourishing when illuminated from within this tradition of Christian eudaimonism alongside the doctrine of calling.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-12
Mått161 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt581 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978700246

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Chapter 1: Puritanism and the ‘Haunting Fear’Chapter 2: Nature, Ends, and HappinessChapter 3: Reason, Theoria, and PraxisChapter 4: A ‘Kind of Life’: Rationality, Virtue, and Moral DevelopmentChapter 5: ‘Imposed on Man:’ Personhood, Command and CallingChapter 6: ‘Common Good:’ Community and the PoliticalChapter 7: Community, Friendship, and LawChapter 8: Puritan Ethics and a Tradition of Happiness

Nathaniel A. Warne is that rare thing: a rigorous philosophical theologian who is also deeply humane. This book is about how some of the most impressive people in the Christian tradition have wrestled with what it truly means to be happy — not just in theory, but also in practice. He not only understands the Puritans sympathetically in their own context, but also draws out their lessons for our own age, when the idea of 'happiness' has become so impoverished. Anyone who wants to enrich it again will benefit from reading this book.