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The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology - A Virtue Perspective (Paperback)
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The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology - A Virtue Perspective (Paperback)
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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 Sermon presents an account of
happiness and virtue transformed in the light of Christian faith.
The happiness portrayed is that of the Kingdom of heaven, and the
habits needed to participate in it in the next life, but even
initially in this one, are possible only by God's grace through
Jesus Christ, and lived in the community that is the Church.
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