Whether religion is a theological virtue distinct from faith
Article XXIII. Whether religion is a theological virtue distinct from faith.
1. Aquinas makes religion a moral virtue (not theological) rendering due worship to God. Others call it a theological virtue distinct from faith.
2. Broadly, religion is whole worship of God — not really distinct from faith, hope, and charity, but their exercise toward God. Strictly, as directing worship, it can be told apart from faith, yet is not theological in the same sense as faith, hope, and charity: its formal object is due worship, not God as supernatural end by revelation.
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ART. XXIII. An Religio sit virtus Theologica a Fide distincta. 1. Thomas Aquinas 2.2. q.81 docet religionem esse virtutem moralem (non theologicam), qua DEO cultus debitus redditur. Alii eam virtutem theologicam a fide distinctam faciunt. 2. Nos: Religio late sumpta includit totum DEI cultum, & sic non est virtus a fide, spe, charitate realiter distincta, sed earum exercitium erga DEUM. Stricte, ut virtus specialis dirigendi cultus actus, potest a fide distingui, non tamen est virtus theologica eodem modo quo fides, spes, charitas — quia objectum ejus formale non est DEUS ut finis supernaturalis per revelationem, sed cultus debitus.