Call to Happiness

Eudaimonism in English Puritan Thought

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In The Call to Happiness, Nathaniel A. Warne examines how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritans adopted a eudaimonistic conception of ethics in their writings. He shows how classical eudaimonism within the Puritan context is related to other areas of theology, ethics, and politics, and that the idea of divine calling or vocation fits within Puritan eudaimonism. Warne further shows how work can also be understood as an aspect of human flourishing when illuminated from within this tradition of Christian eudaimonism alongside the doctrine of calling.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-12
Mått:161 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781978700246

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Nathaniel A. Warne (PhD, Durham University, UK) is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame in the Center for Social Concerns and also ministers in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana.

Recensioner i media

Nathaniel A. Warne is that rare thing: a rigorous philosophical theologian who is also deeply humane. This book is about how some of the most impressive people in the Christian tradition have wrestled with what it truly means to be happy — not just in theory, but also in practice. He not only understands the Puritans sympathetically in their own context, but also draws out their lessons for our own age, when the idea of 'happiness' has become so impoverished. Anyone who wants to enrich it again will benefit from reading this book.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Puritanism and the ‘Haunting Fear’Chapter 2: Nature, Ends, and HappinessChapter 3: Reason, Theoria, and PraxisChapter 4: A ‘Kind of Life’: Rationality, Virtue, and Moral DevelopmentChapter 5: ‘Imposed on Man:’ Personhood, Command and CallingChapter 6: ‘Common Good:’ Community and the PoliticalChapter 7: Community, Friendship, and LawChapter 8: Puritan Ethics and a Tradition of Happiness