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Virtue 1 - Love: The Lodestar of Life; Virtue 2 - Where There Is Honesty, Other Virtues Will Follow; Virtue 3 - Making a Case for Morality; Virtue 4 - Our Fading Civility; Virtue 5 - Learning: "With All Thy Getting, get Understanding" Virtue 6 - The Twin Virtues of Forgiveness and Mercy; Virtue 7 - Thrift and Industry: Getting Our Houses in Order
Several New Testament passages contain lists that have come to be labeled Catalogues of Vices and Virtues by scholars. The catalogue form was extremely popular in 1st century [clarification needed] Hellenism. [citation needed] Plato wrote the earliest catalogue. Such catalogs could easily be adapted for a range of philosophies and ethics.
The seven capital virtues or seven lively virtues (also known as the contrary or remedial virtues) [8] are those thought to stand in opposition to the seven capital vices (or deadly sins). Prudentius , writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues.
The Book of Virtues (subtitled A Treasury of Great Moral Stories) is a 1993 anthology edited by William Bennett.It consists of 370 passages across ten chapters devoted to a different virtue, each of the latter escalating in complexity as they progress.
The Moral Compass (subtitled A Companion to The Book of Virtues and Stories for a Life's Journey) is a 1995 anthology edited by William Bennett. A follow-up to the 1993 collection The Book of Virtues , it consists of seven chapters devoted to different stages of life, with passages from Western civilization and various other cultures.
The Protestant scholar Klaus Bockmuehl believes that the Church replaced the Commandments with lists of virtues and vices, such as the seven deadly sins, from 400 to 1200. [26] Other scholars contend that throughout Church history the Commandments have been used as an examination of conscience and that many theologians have written about them ...
Heroic virtue of a person is one of the requirements for his or her beatification.The view of the Catholic Church is explained in an article by J. Wilhelm in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia: [2] Wilhelm explains that heroic virtue, as a concept within Christian ethics, is characterized by the embodiment of the cardinal and theological virtues.
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit is one of several lists of virtues, vices and blessings in Christian devotional literature which follow a scheme of seven. [12] Others include the seven deadly sins , the seven virtues , the seven last words from the cross , the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer , and the Beatitudes .