The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, Second Edition

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The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, Second Edition

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First published in 1991, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethicsintroduced readers to an approach in Christian ethics that was not then much in vogue. Although the Second Vatican Council had marked a departure from the legalistic code of proper conduct for Catholics (known since the Catholic Reformation as “casuistry”), few Catholic theologians had yet begun to explore an ethics based on moral virtues rather than one based on narrow, prescriptive rules.At the forefront of studies that would begin to recover virtue ethics—the ethical teaching of the church in the patristic...

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0268022976, 9780268022976

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