theological virtue

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Hope (Theological Virtue)

Hope (Theological Virtue) Hope is termed a theological virtue because its immediate object is God, as is true of the other two essentially infused virtues, faith and charity. Hope, in its widest acceptation, is described as the desire of something together with the expectation of obtaining it. The Scholastics say that it is a movement of the appetite towards a future...

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The Virtue Of Hope

The Virtue Of Hope This article covers The Virtue of Hope. In his preface to the Holy Father’s Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Vittorio Messori remarks that John Paul is so impatient in his apostolic zeal that he “wants to shout from the rooftops (today crowded with television antennae) that...