Persisting in the Good by Peng Yin
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts this ubiquitous fact of moral striving by retrieving moral wisdom from Thomas Aquinas and classical Chinese ethics. Christian moral reflection has been decisively shaped by its early engagement with Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism, but limited effort has been made with Chinese philosophy. This book fills the gap by bringing Christian theology in conversation with classical Chinese philosophy, demonstrating the potential for mutual illumination on ethical questions such as human nature, ritual, and cosmic order. In the face of constitutional limits both in the self and the world, Yin draws connections between two pre-modern traditions which appeal to a fuller, transcendent good to reshape the patterns with which we pursue more quotidian ends.-
Beyond the Necessary God
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Wittgenstein and the Mystical
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Visions of Religion
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Syncretism and Christian Tradition
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Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference
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Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology
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Plato's Ghost
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The Language of Disenchantment
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Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
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Moral Creativity
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Writing Religion
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Working Emptiness
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Better than Wine
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The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith
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Pilgrimage of Love
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Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
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Secularism and Religion-Making
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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
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Melancholic Freedom
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God, Philosophy and Academic Culture
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Converging on Culture
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American Pragmatism
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Opting for the Margins
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Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
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Fortunate Fallibility
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Bliss Against the World
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Critique of Halakhic Reason
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Attunement
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Making Magic
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Newman and Gadamer
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Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
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An Essay on Theological Method
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Healing Deconstruction
Peng Yin is Assistant Professor of Ethics at Boston University, with appointments in the School of Theology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Department of Classical Studies; Global Medieval Studies; and the Center for the Study of Asia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780197830444 |
| ISBN 10 | 0197830447 |
| Title | Persisting in the Good |
| Author | Peng Yin |
| Series | Aar Reflection And Theory In The Study Of Religion |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2026-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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