Breakdown of the Teleological View of Life?

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" Breakdown of the Teleological View of Life? "
Pieter Vos

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073591
Doc. No	:	LA117220
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697312-00902014‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Pieter Vos
Title & Author	:	Breakdown of the Teleological View of Life? [Article]\ Pieter Vos
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Reformed Theology
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2
Page No	:	131–147
Abstract	:	In response to Alasdair MacIntyre’s and Brad Gregory’s claim—that the Reformation’s concept of morality in terms of obedience to divine commandments has been a major factor in a catastrophic breakdown in modernity of the teleological view of life and the virtues—this essay aims both to correct this criticism and to reread Calvin from the perspective of virtue ethics. Calvin’s utterances about the nature of the law, virtue, the self before God, one’s calling in the world, natural law and reason appear to be much more in alliance with a teleological, virtue ethical view than MacIntyre suggests. This opens up the possibility of a fruitful interplay between a Reformed account of law and Christian virtue ethics. In response to Alasdair MacIntyre’s and Brad Gregory’s claim—that the Reformation’s concept of morality in terms of obedience to divine commandments has been a major factor in a catastrophic breakdown in modernity of the teleological view of life and the virtues—this essay aims both to correct this criticism and to reread Calvin from the perspective of virtue ethics. Calvin’s utterances about the nature of the law, virtue, the self before God, one’s calling in the world, natural law and reason appear to be much more in alliance with a teleological, virtue ethical view than MacIntyre suggests. This opens up the possibility of a fruitful interplay between a Reformed account of law and Christian virtue ethics.
Descriptor	:	Calvin
Descriptor	:	divine commands
Descriptor	:	MacIntyre
Descriptor	:	natural law
Descriptor	:	virtue ethics
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697312-00902014‬