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Article: Conscience and Other Virtues: from Bonaventure to MacIntyre.
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 2002
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By Douglas C. Langston. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2001. Pp. viii + 191. $40.
The burgeoning field of virtue theory has, in the last two decades, revitalized theological ethics and led to a recasting of many traditional categories and concepts. It has reinvigorated debates about the nature of the good, has reemphasized the significance of moral character, and has reestablished community as an important moral category. Yet in all these discussions, as Langston emphasizes, conscience is seriously neglected. In fact, his assessment is that the modern concept of conscience has in effect been relegated to the realm of fiction and cut off from all ...