The Aristotelian and Thomistic concepts of virtue and the humanistic understanding of it as the cultivation of innate goodness were undercut by the Reformation insistence that human effort could not add to human merit for the purposes of salvation.#
A wide range of political and economic questions has always been technical or prudential in nature, and it is doubtful that Christian theology has, or should claim, any special competence to address such questions.#
Kierkegaard’s notion that purity of heart is to will one thing is valid only if that one thing is sufficiently multifaceted to allow pluralistic fulfillment.#