A liberation for the earth: climate, race and cross

Abstract

Christianity may indeed merge in the modern era. Two things stood out as I engaged with Modern Virtues. Firstly, that Paul’s metaphor for virtue and Christ-likeness as a garment – indeed a wardrobe (following Burke’s “wardrobe of moral imagination” through habituation) – has goaded me to be a more visible virtuous presence as one who seeks to follow Christ in a conflicted social era. Virtue has not been squeezed out by modernity. Secondly, that I can see the results of Wollstonecraft’s courage and insight in thirteen women across both sides of my family who were suffragettes, and particularly Christian suffragettes. In reading Modern Virtues, I am grateful that I can now understand why. In this sense, Dumler-Winckler has achieved what she set out to do, that is, to vindicate the pursuit of virtue in its broadest modern sense, and to introduce every reader to Mary Wollstonecraft as theologian and ethicist.