Putting On Virtue

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Author	: Jennifer A. Herdt
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 467
Release	: 2012-05-09
ISBN-10	: 9780226327198
ISBN-13	: 0226327191
Rating	: 4/5 (98 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Putting On Virtue by : Jennifer A. Herdt

Book excerpt: This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The author's broad historical sweep takes in the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas and has chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Hume, and others.

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