Eight story-reflections, each based on a different Beatitude, offer accounts of immigrant children who fled Central America on their own to escape violence and poverty. Artwork created by immigrant youth and meditations written by Jesuit Father Leo O'Donovan accompany the stories.
This second edition will inspire a new generation of students and teachers.
Ecumenical in tone, this book provides a thorough but accessible introduction to recent philosophical accounts of virtue and offers an original, explicitly Christian adaptation of these ideas.
Closing the book with reflections on the roles of other virtues (and vices) in individual and communal Christian life, the authors discuss various issues in social ethics and sexual morality as they are dealt with in Paul and in Christian ...
Answering the call of the Second Vatican Council for moral theology to 'draw more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture,' the authors examine the virtues that both flow from Scripture and provide a lens by which to interpret Scripture.
... Thomas J. Shanahan, Church: A Spirited Communion (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995). 21 Yves Congar, “Reception as an Ecclesiological Reality,” in Election and Consensus in the Church, ed. Giuseppe Alberigo and Anton Weiler, ...
Christians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle's ethics together with the work of significant contemporary scholars such as...
This work provides a solid overview of classical virtue ethics (i.e., temperance, prudence, fortitude, and justice) as well as the theological virtues (i.e., faith, hope, and love).
In Augustine's view, virtue may be the best and most useful thing one can find on earth.73 Nevertheless, virtue cannot ... Yet, as James Wetzel, Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 72, ...
Moral Virtues Theological Ethics: Theology
After providing an exhaustive inventory of the soldiers' war goods and their weights, he writes, “They carried all they ... to “hump” freight into a metaphor for the psychological burdens that the warrior carries into and out of combat.