Health as a virtue : Thomas Aquinas and the practice of habits of health /

How are we to care for our bodies and our health as part of faithful Christian living? Melanie Dobson excavates from Thomas Aquinas an answer for how contemporary Christians might live well in the midst of a very sick culture. Through a close reading of Aquinas's 'Treatise on Habit',...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dobson, Melanie L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2015.
Temas:
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274. > Summa theologica. > Selections. > English.
Summa theologica (Thomas, Aquinas, Saint)
Theology > Health aspects.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Spiritual Warfare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Thomas Aquinas and habits of health. Introduction : a story of habits learned
  • Habit and health in Aristotelian thought
  • Habit in Aquinas
  • Health as a habit in Aquinas
  • Body, soul, and the healthy life
  • Passionately longing for health
  • The action of habits of health
  • What is health for? : the ends of habits of health
  • Part 2. Habits of health in Christian community. Clergy health initiative
  • Word made flesh
  • Conclusion : habits of health and the church.

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