Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.

Religion & Spirituality

Vos, Pieter

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

Review\n“The book serves as an important addition to the study of virtue and deserves to be read and reflected on by those of us who are interested in Christian virtue theory.” ―Studies in Christian Ethics\nThis book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge.\nVos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.

Agriculturist, missionary, lay preacher, Pieter Vos, along with his wife , Johanna, co-founded the Sunbeam Home for the handicapped.

PRECIOUS JEWELS - A Story of Pieter and Johanna Vos and the Founding of the Sunb

The Triumph Press

Departing from the Reformed tradition and its potential to contribute to the discussion about the connection between liturgy and ethics, this volume offers in-depth studies in how to understand God’s acting in worship, the centrality of justice, and the formative meaning of the liturgy.

Liturgy and Ethics (Studies in Reformed Theology, 33)

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Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

PRECIOUS JEWELS - A Story of Pieter and Johanna Vos and the Founding of the Sunb

Liturgy and Ethics (Studies in Reformed Theology, 33)