ABSTRACT
The moral virtues are those firm attitudes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that make possible ease, self-mastery and joy in leading a morally good life; they are the fruit and seed of morally good acts. The theological virtues animate Christian moral activity and give it its special character. In the light of the theological virtues, then, the moral virtues undergo a resurrection or rebirth of significance; the sense and value they possess from the perspective of those whose forms of life are exhaustively structured around them is revealed to be importantly limited or incomplete when viewed from the perspective of those granted possession of the theological virtues: they are imperfectly or inadequately realized or appreciated in the absence of faith, hope and love, and find individual fulfilment in their collective presence.
