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The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective
Iii William C. Mattison
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Description for The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective
hardcover. This book offers a virtue-centered account of moral theology that is rooted in the Sermon of the Mount. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
In this volume, William C. Mattison, III demonstrates that virtue ethics provides a helpful key for unlocking the moral wisdom of the Sermon on the Mount. Showing how familiar texts such as the Beatitudes and Petitions of the Lord's Prayer are more richly understood, and can even be aligned with the theological and cardinal virtues, he also locates in the Sermon classic topics in morality, such as the nature of happiness, intentionality, the intelligibility of human action, and the development of virtue. Yet far from merely placing the teaching of Aristotle in the mouth of Jesus, he demonstrates how the ... Read more
In this volume, William C. Mattison, III demonstrates that virtue ethics provides a helpful key for unlocking the moral wisdom of the Sermon on the Mount. Showing how familiar texts such as the Beatitudes and Petitions of the Lord's Prayer are more richly understood, and can even be aligned with the theological and cardinal virtues, he also locates in the Sermon classic topics in morality, such as the nature of happiness, intentionality, the intelligibility of human action, and the development of virtue. Yet far from merely placing the teaching of Aristotle in the mouth of Jesus, he demonstrates how the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107171480
SKU
V9781107171480
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About Iii William C. Mattison
William C. Mattison, III is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, with a joint appointment in the Alliance for Catholic Education. He spent ten years at The Catholic University of America, where he served as interim Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies. He is the author of Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and ... Read more
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