theological virtue

“Then the church turned demographic fact into theological virtue by embracing urban advocacy and racial justice.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018

Catalans are archetypally producers rather than dreamers, and they tend to pride themselves on what they call seny, common sense raised almost to the level of a theological virtue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore theological virtue does not observe the mean.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Now it belongs to a theological virtue to have God for its object.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

I think, you know, that hope, which is after all a theological virtue, has never had justice at the hands of the theologians.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie