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theological virtues

plural noun

  1. (esp among the scholastics) those virtues that are infused into man by a special grace of God, specifically faith, hope, and charity Compare natural virtues


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Meyer went on the John Ankerberg show to extol the theological virtues of the Big Bang.

I can easily call thee virtuous, but what will become of the cardinal and theological virtues?

Obviously this is true of the prime theological virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity.

By means of charity, the two other theological virtues, faith and hope, are introduced.

In ethics the distinction he drew between natural and theological virtues is common to him with the rest of the schoolmen.

Again, more reasonably, they have been taken as types severally of the moral, the intellectual and the theological virtues.

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