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... lacking absolute certainty. This essay explores this problem by focusing on the afterlife of Augustine's notion of credulitas , or “belief,” in two parallel but intertwined areas: moral theology and legal thought. In both cases, absolute certainty was the gold standard against which moral actions...

... for a modern engagement with that ethics. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas Joseph Wawrykow University...

... poetry, theology to politics. Even within the long traditions of Christianity, understanding of conversion has included significantly different inflections. The study of conversion has great potential to illuminate many aspects of medieval and early modern culture in terms of revolutionary change...

... by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Tradition of the virtues virtue ethics morality theology literature It belongs to the natural history of man that he has a moral environment. —Gillian Anscombe The tradition of the virtues was the model for moral...

... Wawrykow, Joseph Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas  13 – 33 Zieman, Katherine Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation  699 – 724 Volume 42 Index  751 ...

... Stoic tradition medieval theology moral agency social harmony Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219530 © 2020 by Duke University Press Our Inner Custodian: Shame and Moral Agency in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Ritva Palmén University...

... scholastic moral theology. Raymond’s sur- prising choice, in that context, of patience as the unifying and crowning virtue of Catherine’s life calls attention to the originality in Catherine’s own teaching on the virtues (as compared to that of Thomas Aquinas), harkens back to the Augustinian doctrine...

... he integrated Aristotle’s virtue ethics into Christian ethical reflection. Exactly how he did so, how stable his synthesis was, and the extent to which Aristotle’s thought was trans- formed in the process, remain matters of controversy. In “Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas...

.... $55.00. 462  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.2 / 2006 McAleer, G. J. Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti- totalitarian Theory of the Body. Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology (series). New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xvii, 237 pp. $55.00. [Study...

.... $55.00. 462  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.2 / 2006 McAleer, G. J. Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti- totalitarian Theory of the Body. Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology (series). New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xvii, 237 pp. $55.00. [Study...

... acquired and infused virtues, see Romanus Cessario, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, 2nd ed. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). The book is an excellent introduction to the theology of the virtues in Saint Thomas and Thomistic traditions. 7 Jean...

.... xviii, 519 pp. $85.00, paper $26.95. Cortest, Luis. The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and Its Encoun- ter with Modernity. Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xx, 136 pp. $55.00. Daly, Robert J., S.J., ed. Apocalyptic Thought in Early...

... that, for him, Langland’s lost book is the whole teaching of pre-­Vatican II Roman Cathol- icism, “the shared body of basic Christian moral theology” (184). Simpson opens Burning to Read with his own Protestant version of the confessional-­professional apo- logia, recalling his schoolboy...

... theologiae II-II, composed around the same time as De perfectione . Thomas proposes the form of life found in the Dominican Order as the pinnacle of his speculative moral theology, underpinned by his view of the hierarchically perfective structure of salvation as apostolic or episcopal. He does...

.... Celtic Theology: Humanity, World, and God in Early Irish Writings. London: Continuum, 2000. xv, 235 pp.; 9 maps, 4 illus. Paper $28.95. Rhonheimer, Martin. Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy. Translated from the German by Gerald Malsbary. Moral Philosophy and Moral...

... with the natural philosophies that follow in the seventeenth century. At the very least, Mel- anchthon’s own account complicates Gregory’s strong claim, that “because Law and Gospel were radically distinct, Melanchthon could entirely separate morality from theology” (208). Law is more diffuse...

... biblical play is also arguably his most medieval play, as its allegorical structure and homiletic themes mimic those of the medieval morality play. While Shakespeare's play participates in the religious celebration of the new monarchy, it does so with rich irony, revealing stark contradictions in English...

.... Ritari, Katja. Saints and Sinners in Early Christian Ireland: Moral Theology in the Lives of Saints Brigit and Columba. Studia Traditionis Theologiae: Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology, vol. 3. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2009. xiv, 211 pp.; 10 tables. eur 55.00. Rosenfeld, Jessica. Ethics...

...- sented in exemplary fashion by Reginald Pecock (ca. – ca. who 308 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 48.2 / 2018 advocates reasoned judgment (the “doom of resoun” in Pecock’s terminol- ogy) in the attempt to reassert orthodoxy and determine truths of theology and moral teaching...

... Clark admits, we might at the very least say that “official” theology was not clear enough to prevent the widespread abuses. 44 Bouyer, Eucharist, 381–82. 45 Clark, Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Reformation, 56–64. 46 See John Milbank, “The Midwinter Sacrifice: A Sequel to ‘Can Morality...