Editing Theological virtues (section)

==Moral theology ==
[[Image:VirtudesBraga.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The three Virtues in [[Bom Jesus do Monte|Bom Jesus]], [[Braga]] ]]

A person receives the theological virtues by their being "infused"—through [[Divine grace]]—into the person.<ref name=CatholicEncyclopedia>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm|title=Catholic Encyclopedia|chapter=Virtue|location=New York|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|date=1912|last=Waldron|first=M.A.|editor-last=Herbermann|editor-first=Charles}}</ref> The theological virtues are so named because their object is the divine being ({{transliteration|grc|theos}}).
* ''Faith'' is the infused virtue, by which the intellect, by a movement of the will, assents to the supernatural truths of Revelation, not on the motive of intrinsic evidence, but on the sole ground of the infallible authority of God revealing.<ref name=catholic/> According to [[Hugh Pope]] "[W]hat God says is supremely credible, though not necessarily supremely intelligible for us."<ref name=Pope>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm|last=Pope|first=Hugh|chapter=Faith|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia|volume=5|location=New York|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|year=1909}}</ref> The [[First Vatican Council]] (III, iii;) stated that "faith is a supernatural virtue by which we with the inspiration and assistance of God's grace, believe those things to be true which He has revealed... although the assent of faith is in no sense blind, yet no one can assent to the Gospel teaching in the way necessary for salvation without the illumination of the Holy Spirit..."<ref name=Pope/> It is a gratuitous gift of God.
* ''Hope'' is defined as a Divinely infused virtue, which acts upon the will, by which one trusts, with confidence grounded on the Divine assistance, to attain life everlasting.<ref name=catholic/> Its opposite is the sin of despair.<ref name=Delany/>
* ''Charity'' is a Divinely infused virtue, inclining the human will to cherish God for his own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God. To love God is to wish Him all honour and glory and every good, and to endeavour, as far as one can, to obtain it for Him. {{Bibleverse|John|14:23}} notes a unique feature of reciprocity that makes charity a veritable friendship of man with God. "Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him."<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm|last=Sollier|first=Joseph|chapter=Love (Theological Virtue)|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia|volume=9|location=New York|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|year=1910}}</ref> Lack of love may give place to [[hatred]], [[wrath]], or indifference.