The Virtues, or the Examined Life
AMATECA: Handbooks of Catholic Theology
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Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Theological Virtues
Chapter 1: Faith and the Life of Christian Virtue
1. What the Angels See: Nature and Grace
2. Natural and Gospel Law
3. The Virtuous Life
4. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
5. Faith and the Gifts of Understanding and Knowledge
5.1. The Gift of Understanding
5.2. The Gift of Knowledge
6. The Gift of Wisdom
7. Our Lady and the Recollected Life
Chapter 2: Theological Hope and Christian Expectation
1. The Virtuousness of Theological Hope
2. Hope and the Promise of Happiness
3. Hope and the Love of Desire
4. The Provisional Character of Hope
5. Despair as Anticipation of Nonfulfillment
6. The False Hope of Presumption
7. The Gift of the Fear of the Lord
Chapter 3: Theological Charity and Communio
1. Charity, the Realization of Friendship
2. The Distinctiveness of Christian Virtue
3. Charity, the Form of the Infused Moral Virtues
4. Persons in the Communio
5. The Priorities of Charity
6. The Realization of Christian Communio
7. The Fruits of Charity
Part II: The Moral Virtues
Chapter 4: Christian Prudence and Practical Wisdom
1. “But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16)
2. What Is Christian Virtue?
3. The Nature of Christian Prudence
4. Prudence and the Moral Virtues
5. The Elements of Prudence
5.1. The Integral and Subjective Parts of Prudence
5.2. The Potential Parts of Prudence
6. The Vices Opposed to Prudence
6.1. Imprudence
6.2. Counterfeit Prudence
7. The Gift of Counsel
Chapter 5: Christian Justice and Human Society
1. “But strive first for the kingdom of God and his justice” (Mt 6:33)
2. The Justum, or the Right
3. The Virtue of Justice
3.1. Person and Communities
3.2. General or Legal Justice
3.3. Particular Justice
4. The Virtues Allied to Justice
4.1. The Virtues of Veneration
4.2. The Virtues of Civility
5. Religion
6. The Acts of the Virtue of Religion
6.1. Sacrifice
6.2. Vows
7. The Gift of Piety
Chapter 6: Fortitude and the Courage of Christ
1. Christian Anthropology and Human Emotion
2. The Virtues of Personal Discipline
3. Virtue and Value-Free Theories
4. The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude
5. Fortitude and Martyrdom
6. The Vices and Sins against Fortitude
7. The Components of Fortitude, and the Gift of the Holy Spirit
Chapter 7: Christian Moderation and Temperance
1. Human Action and Human Biology
2. The Dignity of the Human Person
3. The Virtue of Temperance
4. The Makeup and Kinds of Temperance
5. Chastity, Abstinence, and Sobriety
6. The Vices Opposed to Temperance
7. Infused Temperance and Christian Humility
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