American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

Volume 84, Issue 3, Summer 2010

Angela McKay Knobel
Pages 599-618

Two Theories of Christian Virtue

In this paper, I examine two different ways of understanding Aquinas’s account of the infused and acquired virtues. I argue that one of these ways, at least as it is commonly described, is unable to accommodate one of Aquinas’s most central claims about the difference between the infused and acquired virtues.