Title Hope and Christian ethics / David Elliot

Published New York, NY : University of Cambridge, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series New studies in Christian ethics New studies in Christian ethics. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Epigraph; Table of contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Eudaimonia Gap; Aquinas on Happiness; The Eudaimonia Gap as Interdisciplinary Problem; The Limits of Aristotelian Happiness; The Limits of Neo-Aristotelian Happiness; Philippa Foot; Rosalind Hursthouse; Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian Discontents; The Limits of Kantian and Utilitarian Happiness; The Normative Argument; The Positive Side of the Eudaimonia Gap; Chapter 2 The Theological Virtue of Hope in Aquinas Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of HopeAquinas on Grace; Aquinas' Starting Place for Theological Hope; The Nature and Object of Theological Hope; The Final and Efficient Causes of Hope; The Relation of Hope to Faith and Charity; The Opposed Vices of Despair and Presumption; Hope's Gift, Certainty, and Beatitude; The Quietist Negation of Hope; Timothy Jackson's Critique of Theological Hope; Hope's Contribution to Charity; Chapter 3 Rejoicing in Hope; The Restless Heart and the Desiderium for Ideal Happiness; The Normative Status of the Desiderium; Hopeless Death and Technological Hedonism A Life of Hopeful RejoicingChapter 4 Presumption and Moral Reform; Emersonian Piety and Self-Sufficient Presumption; 'Glory without Merits'; 'Forgiveness without Repentance'; The Nietzschean Critique of Christian Repentance; The Gift of Fear; Chapter 5 Despair and Consolation; Imperfect Happiness and the Hope of the Beatitudes; The Stoic Hope Option; The Consolation of Hope; Possibilities for a Hopeful Death; Chapter 6 The Problem of Worldliness; Worldliness in the Tradition; Avarice, Vainglory, and Ambition; Blessed are the Poor in Spirit; Chapter 7 Hope and the Earthly City Homo Viator as a Citizen of Two CitiesDominic Doyle's Christian Humanistic Hope; Hope's Ordination of the Earthly City to the Eschaton; The Heavenly Patria and the Beatific Vision; Notes; Introduction; 1 The Eudaimonia Gap; 2 The Theological Virtue of Hope in Aquinas; 3 Rejoicing in Hope; 4 Presumption and Moral Reform; 5 Despair and Consolation; 6 The Problem of Worldliness; 7 Hope and the Earthly City; Select Bibliography; Index Summary This book describes how the theological virtue of hope contributes to happiness in this life and not just the next Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. SUBJECT Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast Subject Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian ethics. RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Soteriology. Christian ethics Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines Form Electronic book ISBN 1108523099 9781108523097 9781108524582 1108524583 9781316659458 1316659453 9781107156173 1107156173 9781316609743 131660974X

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