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→Theological virtues of faith, hope and love
''See also:'' [[Faith]] and [[Hope]] and [[Love]]
''See also:'' [[Faith]] and [[Hope]] and [[Love]]
A summary of William E. Mann's work ''Theological [[Virtue]]s'' indicates:
A summary of William E. Mann's work ''Theological Virtues'' indicates:
{{Cquote|The three theological virtues of [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[love]], referred to frequently by the apostle Paul in his letters, play an indispensable role in Christian theorizing about a person’s duties with respect to God. [[Thomas Aquinas]] is responsible for the most thorough and influential philosophical theory of the theological virtues. According to him, faith, hope and love are virtues because they are dispositions whose possession enables a person to act well to achieve a good thing – in this case, the ultimate good of salvation and beatitude. Without them, people would have neither the awareness of nor the will to strive for [[salvation]]. Despite the fact that they are infused in persons by God’s grace, one can wilfully and culpably fail to let them develop.<ref>[https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/theological-virtues/v-1#:~:text=9780415249126%2DK101%2D1-,Article%20Summary,duties%20with%20respect%20to%20God. Theological virtues] by William E. Mann's. DOI 10.4324/9780415249126-K101-1</ref>}}
{{Cquote|The three theological virtues of [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[love]], referred to frequently by the apostle Paul in his letters, play an indispensable role in Christian theorizing about a person’s duties with respect to God. [[Thomas Aquinas]] is responsible for the most thorough and influential philosophical theory of the theological virtues. According to him, faith, hope and love are virtues because they are dispositions whose possession enables a person to act well to achieve a good thing – in this case, the ultimate good of salvation and beatitude. Without them, people would have neither the awareness of nor the will to strive for [[salvation]]. Despite the fact that they are infused in persons by God’s grace, one can wilfully and culpably fail to let them develop.<ref>[https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/theological-virtues/v-1#:~:text=9780415249126%2DK101%2D1-,Article%20Summary,duties%20with%20respect%20to%20God. Theological virtues] by William E. Mann's. DOI 10.4324/9780415249126-K101-1</ref>}}
==== Theological virtues of faith hope and love further explained ====
''See also:'' [[Theology]]
The theological virtues are three:
*[[Faith]] is an infused virtue, by which the intellect is perfected by a supernatural light, in virtue of which, under a supernatural movement of the will, it assents firmly to the supernatural truths of Revelation, not on the motive of intrinsic evidence, but on the sole ground of the infallible authority of God revealing
*[[Hope]] which allow us to trust, with an unshaken confidence grounded on the Divine assistance, to attain life everlasting
*[[Charity]] is that theological virtue, by which God, our ultimate end, known by supernatural light, is loved by reason of His own intrinsic goodness or amiability, and our neighbor loved on account of God
=== Intellectual virtues ===
=== Intellectual virtues ===