RT Article
T1 Virtue: Personal Formation and Social Transformation
JF Theological studies
VO 77
IS 1
SP 181
OP 196
A1 Vogt, Christopher P. 1970-
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1559749865
AB Virtue ethics has an expanded role in contemporary moral theology. While continuing to engage the work of Thomas Aquinas and other historical sources to take up fundamental theological questions such as the relationship between human agency and divine grace, contemporary virtue ethics also provides a helpful framework for examining the interplay among social context, personal formation, and social change. There has been growing interest in virtue in the fields of neuroscience and anthropology. The author surveys examples of how theologians have drawn fruitfully from those fields, arguing that a more expansive interdisciplinary engagement would enhance theological understandings of virtue, formation, and social transformation.
DO 10.1177/0040563915620509