- Spirituality Section Coordinator
- Professore Ordinario
- Moral, Spirituality
Course Description
The Scriptures portray friendship with God as an apprenticeship in Christ. Through the filial friendship established by the grace of baptism, Christians are called to participate in Christ’s salvific mission. Patristic authors develop theologies of divine friendship based on this scriptural proclamation, and Thomas Aquinas will even define charity itself as friendship with God. This course is an introduction to this biblical and patristic vision and to St. Thomas’ development of it
Bibliography
CRISP ROGER and MICHAEL SLOTE, eds. Virtue Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
MACINTYRE ALASDAIR. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981 (3rd ed., 2007).
MACINTYRE ALASDAIR. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.
PINKAERS SERVAIS. The Sources of Christian Ethics. Translated by Mary Thomas Noble. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1995.
PORTER JEAN. The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.