5. The theological virtues
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This chapter focuses on the theological virtues as initially presented in the Jewish tradition and then developed and augmented by later Christian thinkers. There is a hierarchical relationship among the theological virtues. Faith involves trust-based intellectual assent to revealed theological truths. Like faith, hope requires a trust in God and is the patient expectation—or habit—of waiting for the promised but ‘not-yet’ good that faith points to. But the fullness of the theological virtues is found in charity. In this virtue, a person is united with God and with others in a kind of ‘divine friendship’ that surpasses the boundaries of family, ethnicity, gender, and status.
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1996 ◽
Vol 95
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pp. 117-132
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