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

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

But penance seems to be a theological virtue, since God is its object, for it makes satisfaction to God, to Whom, moreover, it reconciles the sinner.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Devotion is of itself and of its own nature a moral and acquired virtue, not one that is supernatural and infused, otherwise it would be a theological virtue, which it is not.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre