TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobson,Melanie L.
TI  - Health as a virtue: Thomas Aquinas and the practice of habits of health 
SN  - 9780718843403
AV  - B765.T54 
U1  - 261.5/61 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Lutterworth Press
KW  - Thomas,
KW  - Theology
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
KW  - Theology -- Health aspects
KW  - Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
KW  - Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Summa theologica. Selections. English
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Warfare
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Part 1. Thomas Aquinas and habits of health. Introduction : a story of habits learned -- Habit and health in Aristotelian thought -- Habit in Aquinas -- Health as a habit in Aquinas -- Body, soul, and the healthy life -- Passionately longing for health -- The action of habits of health -- What is health for? : the ends of habits of health -- Part 2. Habits of health in Christian community. Clergy health initiative -- Word made flesh -- Conclusion : habits of health and the church
N2  - How are we to care for our bodies and our health as part of faithful Christian living? Melanie Dobson excavates from Thomas Aquinas an answer for how contemporary Christians might live well in the midst of a very sick culture. Through a close reading of Aquinas's 'Treatise on Habit', Dobson reveals that the moral practice of habit does indeed include health. Thomas's keen understanding of the human person and of human longings supports the book's argument for a practice of health that directs us deep into the heart of God.Field research with clergy and missionaries offers concrete examples of
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