Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

3-1-2020

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Source Publication

Theological Studies

Source ISSN

0040-5639

Abstract

New perspectives from virtue ethicists engaged with human fragility make concrete moral theology’s long understanding that humans are both free and constrained in our virtue pursuit. Theologians examine the possibilities of virtue under conditions of oppression as well as the virtue and vice of oppressors. Some adapt the term “moral luck” from philosophy to describe how persistent life circumstances shape the pursuit of virtue. Others focus on determinative individual acts through the lens of moral injury, a concept developed by psychologists caring for veterans. Finally, theologians engaged with disability describe flourishing, virtuous lives lived amid human mental and physical fragility.

Comments

Accepted version. Theological Studies, Vol. 81, No. 1 (March 1, 2020): 150-168. DOI. © 2020 SAGE Publications. Used with permission.

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