Perfection in Death: The Christological Dimension of Courage in Aquinas

by Patrick Clark

Perfection in Death brings together topics--Christian martyrdom, virtue ethics, the "ethics of the end of life"--that have each seen a flowering of academic interest in the past two decades. Patrick Clark shows that these topics are in fact closely connected by examining one of the pre-eminent masters of Christian ethics, Thomas Aquinas. Perfection in Death compares and contrasts the relationship between conceptions of courage and death in the thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813227976
• ISBN13: 9780813227979
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"