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Putting on Virtue
Jennifer A. Herdt
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Description for Putting on Virtue
Hardcover. Reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. This book traces a path from suspicion of virtue to its secular inversion, from confession of dependence to assertion of independence. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM1; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. "Putting On Virtue" reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought.Jennifer A. Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas with the early modern ... Read more
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. "Putting On Virtue" reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought.Jennifer A. Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas with the early modern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226327242
SKU
V9780226327242
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About Jennifer A. Herdt
Jennifer A. Herdt is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Reviews for Putting on Virtue
"Jennifer Herdt's book is, far and away, the best recent work in Christian ethics that we have." - John R. Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary"