The moral virtues and theological ethics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cessario, Romanus
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Introduction
  • The moral virtues and Christian faith
  • Issues in philosophy and theology
  • Virtues and the Gospel
  • Realist moral theology
  • Human psychology and Gospel grace
  • Habitus, character, and growth
  • Habitus and Christian kenosis
  • Habitus and personality
  • Development of habitus
  • What is a moral virtue?
  • Moral virtue and the goal of Christian life
  • The nature of moral virtue
  • Virtue and human capacities
  • Christian faith and disordered emotions
  • Prudence and the moral virtues
  • Communio and the moral life
  • Prudence and the moral virtues
  • The role of prudence
  • Prudence and divine providence
  • What causes the moral virtues to develop?
  • Moral virtue and the theological life
  • Virtues in nature
  • Acquired virtue
  • Infused virtue
  • How to distinguish infused from acquired virtue
  • Dynamics of infused virtues
  • Characteristics of the virtues
  • Distinctiveness of Christian teaching
  • The mean of virtue
  • Connection of the virtues
  • Equality of the virtues
  • After veritatis splendor : the moral virtues and Catholic moral thought
  • Miraculous herrings
  • The casuist eclipse
  • The Thomist influence on magisterial teaching
  • Allergy to imposed moral obligation
  • Classical teaching on the Christian virtues.