The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics - Softcover

Porter, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664226035 ISBN 13: 9780664226039

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1990

Synopsis

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. Porter serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics and the British journal Studies in Christian Ethics.

From Library Journal:

Porter, a Roman Catholic moral theologian, shows the relevance of the greatest of medieval theologians to contemporary ethical reflection. She sees dialog about Aquinas as necessary to overcoming the recent fragmentation in Christian ethics and to bridging the gap between absolutism and proportionalism, between nature interpreted by science and the particularism of history/community, and various ideas of love as source of moral norms. An important book for moral philosophers and clergy, this book is recommended for seminary and large academic libraries.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0664226035
• ISBN 13: 9780664226039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212