Mark O'Keefe, OSB is Professor of Moral Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana. Among his books are Becoming Good, Becoming Holy: On the Relationship of Christian Ethics and Spirituality (1995) and most recently Love Awakened by Love: The Liberating Ascent of St. John of the Cross (2014) and The Way of Transformation: St. Teresa of Avila on the Foundation and Fruit of Prayer (2016).
"In this wise, eminently accessible, and truly practical book, Mark
O'Keefe demonstrates how the virtues form us into persons who know
how to live truly good and happy lives. What distinguishes Virtues
Abounding is that O'Keefe probes not only Aquinas's treatment of
the four cardinal virtues, but also all the other virtues
associated with them. In this way he breaks open the richness of
Aquinas's analysis and reveals why it remains so relevant for us
today."
--Paul J. Wadell, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin
"Fr. O'Keefe's Virtues Abounding manages to do the near impossible.
He offers an account of the virtues that both closely follows St.
Thomas Aquinas, and accessibly speaks to our contemporary
situation. Though addressing nearly all of the myriad sub-virtues
and opposing vices found in St. Thomas's Summa, Fr. O'Keefe manages
to connect these to contemporary experiences such as 24-hour news,
eating disorders, consumerism, and individualism. Scholars will
recognize his stands on contested issues . . . but the reader new
to Aquinas will find a penetrating and illuminating account of
living virtuously, especially in the Christian life of grace."
--William Mattison, University of Notre Dame
"For all teaching the virtues in colleges, universities, seminaries
and parish settings, here is your new book: Mark O'Keefe's splendid
Virtues Abounding. O'Keefe provides us with a cornucopia of
virtues: not only justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude, but
also their sub-virtues . . . Clearly the worthy, contemporary
successor to Josef Pieper's The Four Cardinal Virtues, O'Keefe's
work should now become the virtue handbook for the 21st
century."
--James F. Keenan, S.J., Boston College
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