William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Karl Barth and Christian Ethics: Living in Truth (2014) and American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (2002).Kathryn Getek Soltis is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University.

• PrefacePart I: Why Virtue?Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics TodayJames F. Keenan, S.J.Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of VirtueJennifer A. HerdtPart II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public LifeChapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic IntegrityMargaret Urban WalkerChapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective VirtueMark A. WilsonPart III: Virtue, Children, and the FamilyChapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer CultureMary M. Doyle RocheChapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising ‘Nones’: Practicing Courage and HumilityJulie Hanlon RubioPart IV: Virtue and Moral FailureChapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance TodayJean PorterChapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral FailureLisa TessmanPart V: Virtue and the Challenge of OthernessChapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie SchillingerChapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri

Featuring some of the most interesting and senior scholars working on the virtues today, the volume makes a fine contribution to the literature.... [M]ost entries...significantly advance research into their chosen topics.... The volume will be useful to more advanced students who want to see issues of public and family life run through a virtue ethics filter, and it will be studied closely by specialists who look to figures such as Porter and Herdt for pioneering developments in the field.

William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Karl Barth and Christian Ethics: Living in Truth (2014) and American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (2002).Kathryn Getek Soltis is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University.

• PrefacePart I: Why Virtue?Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics TodayJames F. Keenan, S.J.Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of VirtueJennifer A. HerdtPart II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public LifeChapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic IntegrityMargaret Urban WalkerChapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective VirtueMark A. WilsonPart III: Virtue, Children, and the FamilyChapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer CultureMary M. Doyle RocheChapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising ‘Nones’: Practicing Courage and HumilityJulie Hanlon RubioPart IV: Virtue and Moral FailureChapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance TodayJean PorterChapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral FailureLisa TessmanPart V: Virtue and the Challenge of OthernessChapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie SchillingerChapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri

Featuring some of the most interesting and senior scholars working on the virtues today, the volume makes a fine contribution to the literature.... [M]ost entries...significantly advance research into their chosen topics.... The volume will be useful to more advanced students who want to see issues of public and family life run through a virtue ethics filter, and it will be studied closely by specialists who look to figures such as Porter and Herdt for pioneering developments in the field.

William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Karl Barth and Christian Ethics: Living in Truth (2014) and American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (2002).Kathryn Getek Soltis is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University.

• PrefacePart I: Why Virtue?Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics TodayJames F. Keenan, S.J.Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of VirtueJennifer A. HerdtPart II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public LifeChapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic IntegrityMargaret Urban WalkerChapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective VirtueMark A. WilsonPart III: Virtue, Children, and the FamilyChapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer CultureMary M. Doyle RocheChapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising ‘Nones’: Practicing Courage and HumilityJulie Hanlon RubioPart IV: Virtue and Moral FailureChapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance TodayJean PorterChapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral FailureLisa TessmanPart V: Virtue and the Challenge of OthernessChapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie SchillingerChapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri

Featuring some of the most interesting and senior scholars working on the virtues today, the volume makes a fine contribution to the literature.... [M]ost entries...significantly advance research into their chosen topics.... The volume will be useful to more advanced students who want to see issues of public and family life run through a virtue ethics filter, and it will be studied closely by specialists who look to figures such as Porter and Herdt for pioneering developments in the field.