This article examined what constitutes Christian virtue ethics and its goal of highest human
good. Christian virtue is a reality that is ontologically rooted in the grace of God through the …

Abstract This dissertation examines Orthodox Christianity in light of the recent recovery and
renewal of the place of virtue in ethics. Its argument is that virtue is an appropriate category …

It is a fact that many students of ethics-both philosophical and theological-are returning
today to something which may be called an ethic of virtue. This return suggests a …

The contemporary 'turn to virtue'was pioneered from the late 1950s through to the 1970s by
the philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot and Iris Murdoch at the Universities of …

What does it take to follow and not merely admire Jesus? How do religious affections
reshape the practice of Christian values like love, peace, justice, and compassion? How can …

Edited by Arthur Holder Copyright© 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd a response to an
actual experience of God's goodness in Christ:“We love because he first loved us”(1 John 4 …

Attention to virtue ethics in Eastern Christianity complicates the dominant narrative within the
field by revealing new ways of conceptualizing classical problems in virtue theory, new …

A few years ago, the first distinction that ethicists drew was the line between Christian ethics
and philosophical ethics. However, in our global context, Christian ethicists must now, in …

Looking for 'the future of Christian ethics' we have to be aware of different paradigms of
theological ethics and its different implications for a theologically reflected notion of future …

The encyclical Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth) represents the first document of the
magisterium devoted to the foundations of the Catholic moral life. Though it was intended to …