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Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue - The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (Hardcover)
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Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue - The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write
a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De
Officiis, variously translated as "on duties" or "on
responsibilities." But Ambrose also dealt with the moral life in
other works, notably his sermons on the patriarchs and his
addresses to catechumens and newly baptized. There is a vast modern
literature on Ambrose, but only in recent decades has he begun to
be taken seriously as a thinker, not just as a working bishop and
ecclesiastical politician. Because Ambrose was one of the few Latin
Christian writers in antiquity who knew Greek, another major area
of Ambrose scholarship has been the study of his sources, notably
the Jewish philosopher Philo, and Christian writers such as Origen
of Alexandria. In this book, Warren Smith examines the neglected
biblical, liturgical and theological foundations of Ambrose's
thought on ethics. Earlier studies have found little that was
distinctively Christian in Ambrose's image of the virtuous person.
Smith shows that though, like the pagans, Ambrose emphasized
moderation, courage, justice, and prudence, for him these
characteristics were shaped by the church's beliefs about God's
salvific economy. The courage of a Christian facing persecution,
for example, was an expression of faith in Christ's resurrection
and the church's eschatological hope. Eschatology, for Ambrose, was
not pagan wisdom clothed in pious language, but the very logic upon
which virtue rests.
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