Aretegenic

Origin

Coined in 1997 by Ellen T. Charry in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" (ISBN 0195134869), from Greek ἀρετή (aretē, "virtue") and γεννάω (gennaō, "to beget")

Adjective

adjective

1. Conducive to or producing virtue.
• 2004: Richard J. Vincent, Practicing Theology: The Transformational Purpose of TheologyThis aretegenic (virtue producing) function of theology was at the heart of theology prior to modernity.
• 199?:, Colin E. Gunton, in The Church as a School of Virtue?: Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, speaking before the Heidelberger Ökumenisches ForumGood theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue. (may also appear in The Church as a School of Virtue?) Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, Faithfulness and Fortitude. In Conversation with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, ed. Mark Thiessen Nation and Samuel Wells, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 211-231 (2000)

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