Aquinas on the Unity of Perfect Moral Virtue and Its Significance for the Nature-Grace Question

Dissertation, Marquette University (1995)
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For St. Thomas Aquinas, moral theory is a practical discipline. It is primarily concerned with free acts by which Christians, cooperating with divine grace, make their way to God. The topic of virtue assumes center stage in Thomistic moral theology precisely because it is virtue which enables the justified to perform good acts consistently so as to reach their final end. the face-to-face vision of God...

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