|
|
Definition of Theological virtue
1. Noun. According to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues.
Specialized synonyms: Brotherly Love, Charity, Hope, Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Generic synonyms: Cardinal Virtue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theological Virtue
Literary usage of Theological virtue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Charity, then, is that theological virtue, by which God, our ultimate end, known
by supernatural light, is loved by reason of His own intrinsic goodness or ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"ARTICLE V.—7s hope a theological virtue ? R. Hope has the character of a ...
Since therefore the essence of a theological virtue consists in having God for ..."
3. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"But those acts belong to religion as eliciting them, which specifically appertain
to the reverencing of God.1 ARTICLE V. — Is religion a theological virtue ..."
4. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"Faith, then, as a theological virtue, is a virtue whose immediate object is God;
... Thus in hope, as a theological virtue, what we immediately bope is God ..."
5. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"67 St. Thomas puts this very briefly, when he says: " Hope has God for its object,
and therefore it is a theological virtue." 6s And it is distinct from ..."
6. Elements of Moral Theology, Based on the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. by John Jay Elmenderf (1892)
"... the intellectual virtue of wisdom considers divine things so far as they can
be investigated by natural reason ; theological virtue goes beyond that. ..."
Other Resources:
