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Jonathan Edwards is increasingly recognized as a thinker whose understanding of virtue offers important contributions to religious ethics. This chapter examines Edwards’s significance for the field in a number of areas: his account of virtue, his view of moral agency, and his accounts of natural and moral goodness. The chapter explains the distinctive character of Edwards’s account of virtue by noting points of continuity and divergence between Edwardsean ‘true virtue,’ a love for God and all created beings that emulates and participates in divine love, and Aristotelian and Thomistic understandings of virtue. The chapter then considers the challenges that Edwards’s soteriology poses for his accounts of moral agency and moral formation. It concludes by arguing that these challenges are partly addressed through exploring the nuances of Edwards’s theology of creation, which also provides a potential starting point for considering how Edwards’s theology may inform contemporary debates in social ethics. |
