Becoming a Saint: Wisdom from Aquinas to Grow in Virtue
COURSE CONTENT
Becoming a Saint: Understanding Virtue and Growing in Intensity
Acting Like a Saint: Correctly Identifying the Virtuous Mean
Approaching Sainthood: Stages of Growth Toward Virtue
Playing to Your Strengths: Using the Connectivity of the Virtues
Seeing Yourself Like a Saint: Identifying and Eliminating False Virtues
Walking with the Saints: Imitating the Virtuous Exemplar
Praying to the Saints: Infused Virtues and the Sacramental Life
Becoming a Saint: Understanding Virtue and Growing in Intensity
Learn how acting more virtuous than you currently are may hold the key to long term growth. Dr. Whitmore sets the stage and explains why growing in virtue matters on our path to sainthood. He gives St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of virtue and explains each part of it in depth. He also distinguishes between intellectual and moral virtue, and offers the first of seven strategies for growing in virtue.