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Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Putting on Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
Author: Jennifer A. Herdt
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique has reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride. Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226327242
ISBN-10: 0226327248
Publication Date: 12/15/2008
Pages: 472
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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