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	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Meaning of Virtue in St. Thomas Aquinas
		They are the virtues, theological and moral, according to their respective purposes; not unlike the native abilities through which mind and will come into contact with us.
		Theological virtues supply for the mind and will what neither faculty has of itself, the salutary knowledge, desire and love of God and of His will, without which there could be no supernatural order, which means voluntary choice of suitable means to reach the heavenly goal to which we are elevated.
		Besides the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, St. Thomas teaches that a person in divine friendship receives an infusion of the moral virtues whose immediate object is not God Himself but the practice of human actions conducive to man's final end.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6092 (3270 words)

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		Grace and its powers cannot be the same as the acquired natural virtues, for solely natural habits cannot bring a higher life or reach a supernatural destiny; it cannot be the same as the theological virtues because habits necessarily imply a subject.
		Each virtue retains its natural dynamic of exercise and habit in the created human personality, but this is expanded by grace whose animations of the virtues are found not in self-improvement or in an extrinsic imitation of Jesus but in a vital form which brings higher capability and orientation.
		Infused virtues differ from natural modes of virtue not because they are connected vaguely to charity or because they are mentioned in the Bible, but because they flow from grace, that extrinsic (and then intrinsic) principle bringing something of the life of the Trinity.
	www.dearey.alivewww.co.uk /HCE2004/VirtuesAquinas.htm (9705 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Catechism of the Catholic Church
		Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace.
		Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself.
		Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.
	www.usccb.org /catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt1art7.htm (2654 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virtue
		Intellectual virtue may be defined as a habit perfecting the intellect to elicit with readiness acts that are good in reference to their proper object, namely, truth.
		As a moral virtue it is not to be taken precisely for what is designated as final perseverance, that special gift of the predestined by which one is found in the state of grace at the moment of death.
		Faith is an infused virtue, by which the intellect is perfected by a supernatural light, in virtue of which, under a supernatural movement of the will, it assents firmly to the supernatural truths of Revelation, not on the motive of intrinsic evidence, but on the sole ground of the infallible authority of God revealing.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15472a.htm (3880 words)

	Aquinas 012199: Hope as Theological Virtue
		It seems kind of selfish, and because of that, you would expect that hope would be a human virtue or a moral one.
		He recognizes the selfish aspect to hope and considers this in his first objection to the question of whether hope is a theological virtue: "It would seem that hope is not a theological virtue.
		For a theological virtue is one that has God for its object.
	www.catholic-forum.com /churches/luxver/AquinasLessons/aq012199.htm (194 words)

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		Not every habit is a virtue, but only one that so improves and perfects a rational faculty as to incline it towards good -- good for the faculty, for the will and for the whole man in terms of his ultimate destiny.
		There is a valid sense in which even the theological virtues observe a kind of mean, or better, a center of gravity to which they tend.
		Infused Moral Virtues Besides the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, St. Thomas teaches that a person in divine friendship receives an infusion of the moral virtues whose immediate object is not God Himself but the practice of human actions conducive to man's final end.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SPIRIT/MEANVIR.TXT (3029 words)

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		Virtue, not obligation, was seen as the key to growing in the moral life.
		Hope: "Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit" (No. 1817).
		The theological and moral virtues are the keys to unlocking the door to a happy life.
	www.catholicherald.com /loverde/ewtn0315.htm (1307 words)

	Elements of Moral Theology 9
		(Define this theological virtue, then, as "a habit of soul, Divinely infused, through which with sure confidence we expect to obtain the spiritual good of eternal life by Divine aid.") This hope is not the natural passion (though grounded in that), but a spiritual habit, purely the gift of grace.
		It is a virtue from its attaining the supreme rule of human actions, which it attains both as that rule is its primal efficient cause, on whose aid it rests; and as that rule is its ultimate final cause, and it expects beatitude in
		And as hope which is conformed to correct estimation of God is laudable and virtuous, so the opposite, which is despair based on a false estimation of God, is vicious and a sin.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/emt09.htm (2858 words)

	Summa Theologica (SS_Q81_A5)
		Now it is evident that religion is not an intellectual virtue, because its perfection does not depend on the consideration of truth: nor is it a moral virtue, which consists properly in observing the mean between too much and too little.
		Hence it is evident that God is related to religion not as matter or object, but as end: and consequently religion is not a theological virtue whose object is the last end, but a moral virtue which is properly about things referred to the end.
		Now the theological virtues, faith, hope and charity have an act in reference to God as their proper object: wherefore, by their command, they cause the act of religion, which performs certain deeds directed to God: and so Augustine says that God is worshiped by faith, hope and charity.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/summa.SS_Q81_A5.html (636 words)

	Summa Theologica (SS_Q17_A5)
		Since, then, the very idea of a theological virtue is one that has God for its object, as stated above (FS, Q[62], A[1]), it is evident that hope is a theological virtue.
		Now a moral virtue is concerned with things ruled by reason, and these things are its proper object; wherefore it is proper to it to follow the mean as regards its proper object.
		Wherefore it is not proper for a theological virtue, with regard to its proper object, to follow the mean, although this may happen to it accidentally with regard to something that is referred to its principal object.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/summa.SS_Q17_A5.html?bcb=0 (608 words)

	Epinions.com - The theological and cardinal virtues
		The theological virtues are “the foundation of Christian moral activity” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 498) and they are infused into our soul by God and enable us to attain the cardinal virtues; we are not able to practice the theological virtues to acquire them.
		The theological virtues are what make the cardinal virtues possible for us because they are rooted in love and when we put them to use we are expressing our love to God.
		Faith is a necessary virtue unless you are “able to teach your moods ‘where they get off’ you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion” (Lewis 125).
	www.epinions.com /content_2957746308 (705 words)

	The Internet Padre - Catholic Web Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Heart of Virtue - Virtue, as Plato has taught, is the health, strength, and excellence of a soul in communion with reality.
		The Moral Virtues In St. Thomas - This article attempts to provide a convenient summary of the main lines of St. Thomas' teaching on Prudence, Fortitude and Temperance as contained in the Secunda Secundae of the Summa.
		Virtue and Hypocrisy - The notion that "virtue is hypocrisy" is a curious one.
	www.internetpadre.com /new/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=73 (466 words)

	Cornucopia - Medieval Studies at Cornell
		According to Aquinas, part of what defines faith as a theological virtue of the intellect is that acts of faith result from free choice.
		not freely); or faith is a theological virtue, and it elicits beliefs which are freely chosen (i.e.
		But if faith is a theological virtue, as Aquinas argues, then it is also a virtue of the intellect.
	www.arts.cornell.edu /medieval/People/students/colloquium/coll_94.htm (1991 words)

	Moral Virtues Quiz
		The virtues that have God Himself as their proper object are "....." virtues.
		The virtue (also a fruit of the spirit) that disposes us to be pure in soul and body.
		The theological virtue that moves us to expect and trust in what God has said.
	www.memorare.com /fb/quizfbvirtue.html (336 words)

	The Virtue of Hope
		“Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of Heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit” (no. 1817).
		Father Davis states that we may sin against the virtue of hope by omission (that is, “when we deliberately fail to elicit an act of hope when we ought to do so”) and commission (that is, aversion from God and Heaven; despair; presumption).
		The Catechism of the Catholic Church concludes its consideration of the theological virtue of hope by quoting a passage from one of the writings of Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) in which this Discalced Carmelite speaks of the glories for which we ardently hope.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/1998-01-02/hope.html (781 words)

	Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		1814 Faith is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself.
		1817 Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.
		it is the form of the virtues; it articulates and orders them among themselves; it is the source and the goal of their Christian practice.
	www.vatican.va /archive/ENG0015/_P66.HTM (1346 words)

	1999 Oct A Shanley
		The inclination to virtue is really nothing other than the natural appetite of the human being for those goods that will perfect it precisely as a rational being; being naturally ordered to virtue is being naturally ordered to the actions and dispositions that will achieve the telos of rational human nature.
		The acquired moral virtues are therefore fundamentally political virtues, directing human beings to the kind of flourishing possible in civil society (vita civis seu politica).
		The achievement of political virtue is an ordering to a self-transcending debitum finem that is in principle available to every moral agent as a fundamental option because it is a good in accord with human nature and inclination.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1999/994ashan.htm (9902 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Love
		Hence one and the same virtue of charity terminates in both God and man, God primarily and man secondarily.
		The meaning is that the other virtues, while possessing a real value of their own, derive a fresh and greater excellence from their union with charity, which, reaching out directly to God, ordains all our virtuous actions to Him.
		As to the manner and degree of influence which charity should exercise over our virtuous actions in order to render them meritorious of heaven, theologians are far from being agreed, some requiring only the state of grace, or habitual charity, others insisting upon the more or less frequent renewal of distinct acts of divine love.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09397a.htm (1781 words)

	Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 1 CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 7
		1807 Justice is the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and neighbor.
		1808 Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.
		1810 Human virtues acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace.
	www.scborromeo.org /ccc/p3s1c1a7.htm (2719 words)

	Recent Theological Developments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The thesis of MacIntyre's After Virtue, influenced by the work of Elizabeth Anscombe (may she rest in peace), and indirectly by that of her teacher Ludwig Wittgenstein, singlehandedly created the vacuum and the proverbial "great sucking sound" which drew legions of moral philosophers into the land of virtue theory.
		As such, her reading of the virtues in Aquinas is freed of some of the "theological baggage," baggage which is problematic if one wants to recover virtue for an era and a society which cannot incorporate a theological telos.
		Whereas the notion of virtue preoccupies Smith throughout The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Smith clearly understands morality in terms of the promotion of virtuous character, virtue is not understood by Smith as unequivocally about self-perfection as it is by Aristotle and Aquinas.
	www.frinstitute.org /rrvirtue2.html (6999 words)

	ACH 2/6/97 -- The Virtue of Faith
		A virtue is a habit or permanent disposition, which leads a person to do good and avoid evil.
		Faith is the virtue by which we firmly believe all the truths God has revealed, because it is His word, and because He can neither deceive nor be deceived.
		The theological virtue of faith is one of those supernatural powers that assists us in our walk with the Catholic Church Christ founded (Mt. 16:18).
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/00articles/sc970206.htm (737 words)

	Catholic Pages Directory: » Morals » VIRTUES
		Donald DeMarco's explanation of the virtue of humility, the foundation of all the other virtues, shows it to be in rather sharp contrast to the popular notion of self-esteem.
		These four cardinal virtues are not the only virtues, but they are the cardes, the "hinges", on which all the other virtues turn.
		Virtue of Patience (from Light and Life, the newsletter of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary)
	www.catholic-pages.com /dir/virtues.asp (545 words)

	Catechism of the Summa Theologica 3
		It is one of the three theological virtues, which effects that our will, relying on the help of God, is drawn towards Him revealed by faith, as towards the one who is to be some day our perfect happiness (XVII.
		Yes, as indeed are all the theological virtues superior to the gifts; also because the virtue of hope views the good to be possessed, whilst the gift of fear views the evil which is the lack of such good.
		No, for if these temporal goods become an obstacle to a life of virtue and are a cause of sin, we cannot desire them neither for ourselves nor for others without prejudicing the virtue of charity.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/catsum03.htm (8203 words)

	CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Faith is both a theological virtue given by God as grace, and an obligation which flows from the first commandment of God.
		As a theological virtue, faith involves a personal adherence to the living God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (cf.
		The theological virtue of faith not only calls us to preserve and deepen the gift of faith, but to allow this gift to bear fruit in a holy life (cf.
	www.cuf.org /Faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=173 (2153 words)

	Quo Vadis Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Virtue is a habit, that is, a virtue is not something we do now and again, but it is something that we do regularly, even without thinking about it.
		Virtue is developed by effort, patience, and much grace from the Lord.
		The Catechism states, “Faith is the virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief, because he is truth itself.
	www.qvdays.org /talks/VSP.htm (1184 words)

	virtue definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		christianity cardinal or theological morality: a cardinal virtue, e.g.
		by virtue of because of, through the power of, or by the authority of something
		make a virtue of necessity to do something with good grace, when you are obligated to do it anyway
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861734295 (189 words)

	HOPE: A PILGRIM’S VIRTUE
		Response: The theological virtue of hope is the confident expectation of diving blessing and eternal life with God.
		This virtue is infused at Baptism and enables the Christian, who is an heir of heaven (cf.
		In the case of the theological virtue of hope, the object is God in God’s self and the fullness of eternal life with God in heaven.
	www.ctkchurch-school.org /hope.htm (1729 words)

	Virtues & Christian Character -Welcome to The Crossroads Initiative
		The articles in this section of the Library lay out how God's inspiration for Christian living, contained in the Scriptures and made known through the Catechism and Church documents, is accessible to everyone and demonstrated for us through the lives of the saints.
		Ambrose and Augustine, Pope John Paul II, Christopher West, Marcellino D'Ambrosio and even Abraham Lincoln have written about the Virtues and Christian Character, many of the articles are available for downloading and printing!
		Seven Habits of Champions lays out how God's inspiration for Christian living, contained in the Scriptures and made known through the Catechism and Church documents, is accessible to everyone and demonstrated for us through the lives of the saints.
	www.crossroadsinitiative.com /library_category/35/Virtues___Christian_Character.html (384 words)

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