Exemplarist Moral Theory by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (review)

Abstract

ful reader of /gures from a variety of traditions and persuasions. ;is book is particularly helpful for identifying the diversity within orthodoxy that characterizes confessional Roman Catholicism. Echeverria notably identi/es this as a “Catholic form of synergism in which man’s free response participates in God’s gi@ of salvation” that “is neither pelagian nor semi-pelagian, which are its heretical forms” (281). Echeverria’s e*ort at exploring and articulating a nonheretical form of synergism according to Roman Catholic confessional standards is salutary. ;e broader ecumenical question remains of whether there is a nonheretical form of monergism that might be identi/ed as legitimate, whether for Roman Catholics or for Christians more broadly. As a Reformed theologian, I /nd this to be one of the most salient features of these debates over the last half millennium, as confessional orthodoxy concerning predestination has been more narrowly de/ned by di*ering ecclesiastical traditions and is increasingly identi/ed along denominational lines.