Open AccessEdwards: Ethics for Both the Vulgar and the Learned
Author(s) -
Paul Helm
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
unio cum christo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2473-8476
pISSN - 2380-5412
DOI - 10.35285/ucc6.1.2020.art9
Subject(s) - faith , doctrine , virtue , meaning (existential) , philosophy , relation (database) , christian faith , epistemology , sociology , religious studies , environmental ethics , theology , database , computer science
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) In Effect Lived Two Lives: One As The Pastor Of Churches In New England, Teaching His People The Faith And Including In That The Ethical Side Or Outworking Of The Faith, The Other As A Theorist Of God’s Relation To His Universe. These Two Roles Need To Be Borne In Mind In What Follows. The First Is Closely Connected With Doctrinal And Practical Themes Of The Christian Faith, The Second With The Meaning And Truth Of Ethical Matters At Their Most Fundamental Level. To Have A Rounded View Of Edwards’s Ethics, We Need Both. KEYWORDS: Jonathan Edwards, Ethics, True Religion, Doctrine And Life, John Locke, Religious Affections, Nature Of True Virtue, Charity And Its Fruits