Ebook: Recovery of Virtue - Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics. Attempts to reconstruct the moral theories of Saint Thomas Aquinas in terms of contemporary Christian ethics, and considers human goodness, virtue, justice, and prudence