Making Good People … Rather than Making People Good?

The paper investigates the roots of a virtue-based ethics within Anglicanism starting with the Caroline tradition in the seventeenth century. In the twentieth century there was a rebirth of ‘Anglican Moral Theology' with the work of Kenneth Kirk, Robert Mortimer and Lindsay Dewar. Issues of per...

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Main Author: Platten, Stephen 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Journal of Anglican studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-171
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDE Anglican Church
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Mattering
B Richard Hooker
B Eudaimonism
B integralist ethics
B Grace
B Caroline Divines
B Anglicanism
B Kenneth Kirk
B Teleology
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Summary:The paper investigates the roots of a virtue-based ethics within Anglicanism starting with the Caroline tradition in the seventeenth century. In the twentieth century there was a rebirth of ‘Anglican Moral Theology' with the work of Kenneth Kirk, Robert Mortimer and Lindsay Dewar. Issues of perfectibility are examined. The recovery of the Orthodox tradition of deification at the present time and the rebirth of virtue ethics through the work of Alasdair McIntyre are explored. Anglicanism is rooted in an approach where grace is already present in the natural order but which is enhanced by an integralist approach to theology bringing together doctrinal, ascetic and moral theology in one compass.
ISSN:1745-5278
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1740355315000091