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*](https://isidore.co/misc/Res%20pro%20Deo/Sel%20de%20la%20Terre/Sdt%20N%C2%B0037/Recensions.pdf), a collection of papers he wrote up to circa 1962. Fr. M.-D. quotes ++Lefebvre's *[Itinéraire spirituel](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7154)* , 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](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6076), " *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