"Theological virtue" Quotes from Famous Books
... the word caritas in connections where it cannot possibly mean theological love.(68) This peculiar usage is based on the idea that love of goodness in a certain way attracts man towards God and prepares him for the theological virtue of charity. In studying the writings of St. Augustine, therefore, we must carefully distinguish between caritas in the strict, and caritas in a secondary and derived sense.(69) The champions of the falsely so-called Augustinian theory of grace(70) ... — Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle |