The Sources of Christian Ethics

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Pinckaers, O.P., was a Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., student who wrote his dissertation on the virtue of hope.

Avrillé Dominican Fr. Marie-Dominique wrote a positive review of Pinkaers's Le Renouveau de la morale, a collection of papers he wrote up to circa 1962. Fr. M.-D. quotes ++Lefebvre's Itinéraire spirituel, where the archbishop says (ch. 5) "Saint Thomas a préféré l’étude des vertus d’une manière approfondie en reliant les commandements aux vertus. " ("St. Thomas preferred the study of the virtues in a more profound way, connecting the commandments with the virtues."); he also quotes a Sept. 1988 sermon where ++Lefebvre says "saint Thomas d’Aquin, contrairement à beaucoup de manuels, a préféré exposer la théologie morale selon les vertus plutôt que selon les commandements de Dieu. " ("St. Thomas Aquinas, contrary to many manuals, preferred to express moral theology according to the virtues more than according to the commandments of God."). Fr. M.-D. also cites Fr. G.-L.'s Les Trois ages de la vie intérieur, "dont l’exposé sur les vertus est particulièrement remarquable " ("whose exposé on the virtues is particularly remarkable").

First published in 1985 as Les sources de la morale chrétienne by University Press Fribourg, this work has been recognized by scholars worldwide as one of the most important books in the field of moral theology