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

by Jean Porter

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664226039
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	11/03/1990
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)

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.

Editorial Reviews

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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