This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards&?s virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as &?virtues&? and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards&?s human virtues is &?receptive&? in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving divine grace, and therefore depend utterly on Edwards&?s God for virtue&?s acquisition. By contending that humans remain authentic moral agents even as they are unable to attain virtue apart from his God&?s assistance, Edwards challenges contemporary conceptions of moral responsibility, which tend to emphasize human autonomy as a central part of accountability.