TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meawad,Stephen M.
TI  - Beyond virtue ethics: a contemporary ethic of ancient spiritual struggle 
T2  - Moral traditions series
SN  - 1647123135
AV  - BJ1249 .M295 2023
U1  - 241/.042 23/eng/20221107
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Catholic authors
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Virtues
KW  - Virtue
KW  - Morale chrétienne
KW  - Auteurs catholiques
KW  - Vie spirituelle
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - Morale
KW  - Vertus
KW  - ethics (philosophy)
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION / Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Ethics, Anthropology, and Patristics -- Which Virtue Ethics? Which Problems? -- A Case for Spiritual Struggle -- Onward and Upward : The Perpetual Godwardness of Spiritual Struggle -- Asceticism as Godward Spiritual Struggle Applied to the Body -- Sacred Reading as Godward Spiritual Struggle Applied to Scripture -- Conclusion: Embodied Ethics and Inevitable Tensions
N2  - "This book develops a contemporary model of spiritual struggle aimed at perpetual ascent to and in God. Spiritual struggle in this project, which ultimately shifts the emphasis from virtue's acquisition to its pursuit, is defined as the exertion of effort in all conceivable dimensions-physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual-with intent to attain a semblance of, knowledge of, and intimacy with Jesus Christ in community, for God and for others. Gregory of Nyssa's theory of epektasis assumes a basic three-tiered conception of perpetual ascent, beginning with purification and detachment from fleshly passions, strengthening the soul by increasing in similitude to God, and ending with unity with God, that is, with inexpressible and transformative experience of God. God-the infinite, the Good, and the Paragon of virtue-functions as the orienting principle of this perpetual ascent, mitigating the issues of the unity of the virtues and the self-centeredness and self-effacement of virtue. This book goes on to provide two of many potential concrete instantiations of this suggested model. The first is the application of this model to the body, which in turn will have implications for contemporary sexual ethics. The second is a reintegration of ethics and Scripture through the contemporary application of an ancient Patristic lectio divina"--
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