The Virtues: Moral, Intellectual, Theological I Professor Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Professor Eitel is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas. Before joining the UD faculty in 2023, he taught for eight years at Yale University, where he held appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span topics in doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries.

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0:28.6	My topic is human virtue,
0:33.6	and I'm specifically going to be speaking about three genre of virtues, namely the theological,
0:43.2	the intellectual and moral virtues. Now, that's a very tall order to cover in the time that we've
0:48.2	given ourselves this evening. And most of my interest is going to be in expounding the theological virtues.
0:57.9	But in order to do that, I have to say something about the virtues that the theological virtues
1:07.2	are in some ways structured upon.
1:14.7	And here's what I mean by that. When I say the word theological in the phrase theological virtue, I'm talking about what in Holy Scripture are
1:24.3	referred to as faith, hope, and love.
1:30.3	Now, you may come from a tradition
1:32.7	where it's unusual for you to think of these things,
1:39.1	faith, hope, and love as virtues.
1:41.3	But I'm going to be suggesting that that's exactly how we should think of them.
1:46.1	What makes them theological, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, is basically three things.
1:53.0	And to understand his reasoning, you have to know something about that word theological.
1:58.2	It's based on the Greek word theos, meaning God, and the theological
2:04.5	virtues are about God in a very particular respect. They're all aimed at God. But they're
2:14.9	called theological virtues and two other senses because they are revealed to us by God,
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