Reformed Virtue after Barth

Reformed Virtue after Barth
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781611645439
ISBN-13 : 1611645433
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Book Synopsis Reformed Virtue after Barth by : Kirk J. Nolan

Download or read book Reformed Virtue after Barth written by Kirk J. Nolan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on the traditions and communities that form us over the course of a lifetime, virtue ethics has richly expanded our understanding of what the Christian life can look like. Yet its emphasis on human virtues and habits of mind and life seems inconsistent with the Reformed tradition's insistence that sin lies at the heart of the human condition. For this reason, virtue ethics seems out of place in Reformed theology, especially in the company of the Reformed tradition's greatest twentieth-century theologian, Karl Barth. In this new addition to the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, Kirk Nolan argues that Barth's theology actually proves virtue ethics can be compatible with the Reformed tradition. Rather than see virtue as an inevitable and natural process of growth, Barth helps us understand that development in the Christian life comes through a process of repetition and renewal, and that all virtue comes solely as a gift from God. Nolan establishes an important bridge between Reformed moral teaching and the tradition of virtue ethics.


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