Redeeming the Acquired Virtues

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14760314
AutoresJennifer A Herdt (0000-0003-2138-9134, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen41
Número4
Páginas727-740
Fecha de publicación2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jore.12040
OpenAlexW1854224728
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas15

The probing readings of P utting O n V irtue offered by S heryl O vermyer, D arlene W eaver, and J ames F oster provide a welcome opportunity for further reflection on key questions: Was A quinas really concerned with the status of pagan virtues? Can we properly understand a thinker whose driving questions are not the same as our own without taking up a stance of pure deference? Can an inquiry into hyper‐ A ugustinian anxiety over acquired virtue assist us in arriving at an account of positive self‐regard? Can an account that stresses the graced character of all virtue formation be coherent? And can it do justice to the ways in which Christians reached for accounts of infused virtue precisely in order to affirm how grace overcomes the ways in which fortune hounds acquired virtue? I respond affirmatively to all of the above

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