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Virtues, or The Examined Life

Virtues, or The Examined Life

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£31.99

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826413895
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 01/04/2002
The chief characteristic of Christian morality is its being linked to the person of Jesus Christ who is himself the universal, personal, and concrete norm of moral action. This book is about the virtues of the Christian life--both the theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity) and the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance)--and it deals particularly with the question, how it is possible for believers to decide for the morally good and to live accordingly. Reflecting on the basic questions of Christian morality, the book offers a commentary on the corresponding sections of The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Part I: The Theological Virtues 1. Faith and the Life of Christian Virtue 2. Theological Hope and Christian Expectation 3. Theological Charity and Communio Part I: The Moral Virtues 4. Christian Prudence and Practical Wisdom 5. Christian Justice and Human Society 6. Fortitude and the Courage of Christ 7. Christian Moderation and Temperence

Romanus Cessario

"provides a thorough introduction to Aquinas's theology of the virtues. The great achievement of the book consists in displaying how the analysis of the theological and cardinal virtues provides a richly textured, supply outline of the Christian life...Cessario successfully advances in concrete form a tradition-constituted and ecclesially normed moral theology." Matthew Levering, The Thomist, January 2003