aretegenic

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Coined by Episcopalian theologian Ellen T. Charry in 1997 in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" →ISBN. From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, virtue) and γεννάω (gennáō, to beget).

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aretegenic

  1. Conducive to or producing virtue.
    • 2004, Richard J. Vincent, Practicing Theology: The Transformational Purpose of Theology[1]:
      This 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 Forum
      Good theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue.

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