The Psychology of Habit Formation and Christian Moral Wisdom on Virtue Formation
In this paper, I provide an overview of the Christian moral wisdom with respect to virtue formation and character cultivation. I focus in particular on some warnings issued by the great teachers on these topics with respect to the motivations one ought to have in the Christian life. I then discus...
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| Language: | deu |
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Catholic University of Louvain
2022-09-01
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| Series: | TheoLogica |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/theologica/article/view/64333 |
| Summary: | In this paper, I provide an overview of the Christian moral wisdom with respect to virtue formation and character cultivation. I focus in particular on some warnings issued by the great teachers on these topics with respect to the motivations one ought to have in the Christian life. I then discuss some findings of contemporary psychology on habit formation which seem to be at odds with the warnings in Christian moral wisdom. I argue that while there is surface discord between the contemporary psychology of habit formation and Christian moral wisdom, there is in fact a deep concord between them.
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |