theological virtue

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“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

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 MacKenzie, Compton

Passive belief is the theological virtue of all sectarians, especially of the Fourierists.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis