Ethics in Early Calvinism

Strohm, Christoph

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“…For Protestants, it was a French Calvinist, Lambert Daneau, who inaugurated a specific discipline of Christian ethics through his 1577 treatise, the Ethices Christianae . Daneau drew on many influences: a Calvinist theology of moral regeneration of human action through the Holy Spirit; the interest of elites in imposing order on a violent society by improving the laity's behavior; the encyclopedic approach to science that emerged in the late sixteenth century and emphasized a comprehensive cataloging of available knowledge; Ramist pedagogy, which sought to break knowledge down into discrete disciplines to enable its efficient teaching; and the post‐Renaissance growth of lawyers trained in Roman law and accustomed to granular analyses of concrete moral dilemmas (Strohm 2005, 275). In short, Catholic and Protestant churches wanted to impress their moral teachings more forcefully on their respective populations.…”

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The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History

Lau

2024

Journal of Religious Ethics

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This article sketches an intellectual history of the distinction between Christian theology and Christian ethics. The twists and turns of that history have been obscured by a recent tendency to deny the distinction's usefulness, as part of a wider strategy for reasserting theology's relevance to modern social problems. By contrast, earlier theologians assumed the value of the theology/ethics divide, interpreting it through Aristotelian, neo‐Kantian, and finally Marxist categories. The distinction fell into disrepute because theologians struggled to maintain the distinction consistently and disagreed on the concerns implicated by it, variously using it to affirm the moral subject's agency, the divine/human difference, or the complexity of real people's circumstances. Nonetheless, the distinction has persisted as a useful shorthand for recognizing the limitations of Christian theology, qua a conceptual discourse, in fully apprehending its subject matter of the Christian life.

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The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History

Lau

2024

Journal of Religious Ethics

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Will and Freedom in Renaissance and Reformation Thought

Saarinen

2013

Sourcebook for the History of the Philosophy of Mind

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Reformed Ethics

Ziegler¹

2020

The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology

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Within the wider field of ethical reflection and moral theology, Reformed ethics is tasked with understanding and orienting human action theologically by formative reference to the fundamental description of moral reality provided by Reformed doctrine. The essential features of this moral reality can helpfully be displayed and coordinated around the themes of belonging, gratitude, law, and holiness. Consideration of these themes helps to bring out what is distinctive in a Reformed theological ethic in the midst of much that is evidently also held in common with the wider Christian tradition. As this chapter looks to demonstrate, the history of Reformed theological ethics testifies to the fundamental and abiding conviction on the part of Reformed believers and theologians that reformatio doctrinae is intrinsically bound with and finds it term in serious and joyful reformatio vitae.

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Ethics in Early Calvinism

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History

The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History

Will and Freedom in Renaissance and Reformation Thought

Reformed Ethics

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