Editing Theological virtues (section)

===Aquinas===
Aquinas found an interconnection of practical wisdom ({{lang|la|prudentia}}) and moral virtue (e.g. courage without prudence risks becoming mere foolhardiness). This is frequently termed "the Unity of the Virtues."<ref>{{cite book |last=Annas |first=Julia |title=The Morality of Happiness |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1993 |location=Oxford, England |pages=73–84 |language=en-uk}}</ref>

Aquinas stated that theological virtues are so called "because they have God for their object, both in so far as by them we are properly directed to Him, and because they are infused into our souls by God alone, as also, finally, because we come to know of them only by Divine revelation in the Sacred Scriptures".<ref name="Delany">{{cite book |last=Aquinas |first=Thomas |title=Summa Theologica |publisher= |year= |volume= |location= |chapter=First part of the second part; Question 62; Article one; |chapter-url=https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1225-1274,_Thomas_Aquinas,_Summa_Theologiae_%5B1%5D,_EN.pdf#page3243}}</ref>

In his treatment of the virtues, [[Aquinas]] viewed the theological virtues as being the product of habitual grace. According to Aquinas, this grace, through the theological virtues, allows humanity to become agents in meritorious action that is beyond their own natural ability. In this way it is supernatural.<ref name="Rziha">{{cite book|last1=Rziha|first1=John Michael|title=Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law|date=2009|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=9780813216720|pages=143–149|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CBFQw8hz8sC|access-date=6 April 2017}}</ref>

Aquinas says "Faith has the character of a virtue, not because of the things it believes, for faith is of things that appear not, but because it adheres to the testimony of one in whom truth is infallibly found".<ref>{{cite book |author=Aquinas |first=Thomas |title=De Veritate |year=1259 |at=xiv.8}}</ref><ref name=Pope/>

Aquinas further connected the theological virtues with the cardinal virtues. He views the supernatural inclinations of the theological virtues, caused by habitual grace, to find their fulfillment in being acted upon in the cardinal virtues.{{clarify|reason=what does it mean for a virtue to be acted upon in another virtue?|date=July 2023}}<ref name=Rziha/>