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Law and Virtue: Aquinas and Augustine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Patrick Hannon
Patrick Hannon
Affiliation:
Professor of Moral Theology at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
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‘From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.’

‘Remember always with thanksgiving that the treasure now to be entrusted to you is Christ's own flock, bought through the shedding of his blood on the cross.’

Type
Research Article
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 14 , January 1994 , pp. 166 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1994

References

1. This article is adapted from a paper delivered to the Ecclesiastical Law Society at Ripon on 23 April 1993.

2. Hart, H. L. A., Law, Liberty and Morality (OUP 1968), p. If.Google Scholar

3. Cf Devlin, Patrick, The Enforcement of Morals (OUP 1965).Google Scholar

4. An excellent account of the life and thought of St. Augustine is to be found in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Faber and Faber 1967).

5. Hereinafter DLA. The translation here used, entitled On Free Choice of the Will, is that by Benjamin, Anna S. and Hackstaff, L. H. (The Library of Liberal Arts. Bobbs-Merrill Inc. 1964).Google Scholar

6. DLA par. 20.

7. Mt. 5: 21–22, 27–28.

8. DLA par. 25.

9. loc. cit.

10. DLA par. 26.

11. DLA par. 40.

12. Ibid.

13. DLA par. 42.

14. DLA par. 43.

15. DLA par. 45.

16. DLA par. 46.

17. DLA par. 49.

18. DLA par. 50.

19. The translation here used is that by Thomas Gilby in vol. 28 of the Blackfriars translation of the Summa Theologiae.

20. What follows is adapted from my Church, Stale, Morality and Law (Gill and Macmillan 1992).Google Scholar

21. Introduction to the ‘Tract on Law’. Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae (hereinafter la 2ae).

22. la 2ae Q. 91, art. 3.

23. la 2ae Q. 90.

24. la 2ae Q. 91, art. 2.

25. la 2ae Q. 95, art. 2.

26. loc. cit.

27. la 2ae Q. 95.

28. la 2ae Q.96, art. 3.

29. la 2ae Q. 96, art. 3, ad 2.

30. la 2ae Q. 96, art. 2.

31. la 2ae Q. 96, art 3.

32. loc. cit.

33. la 2ae Q. 96, art. 3, ad 2.

34. la 2ae Q. 92, art. 1, ad 4.

35. DLA par. 50.

36. De Civitate Dei. Bk.XIX, ch 21

37. DLA par. 40.

38. DLA par. 41.