Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics

Elizabeth Agnew Cochran is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at Duquesne University, USA.

• Introduction and AcknowledgementsChapter 1Protestant Virtue Ethics and the Retrieval of the Stoics Chapter 2A Roman Stoic Ethic of AssentChapter 3The Primacy of Faith in a Protestant Virtue EthicChapter 4Conversion, Transformation and Christian Progress: Protestant Soteriology and the Formation of Moral CharacterChapter 5Providence, Necessity and the Human Will: Moral Agency in Historical Protestant EthicsConclusion: Future Prospects for Protestant Virtue EthicsBibliographyIndex

Sufficiently insightful and creative to benefit students of moral theology and religious ethics, as well as scholars of virtue ethics searching for new points of entry into debates on, for example, the unity of the virtues and the role of faith in moral progress.