English
Etymology
Coined in 1997 by Ellen T. Charry in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" (ISBN 0195134869), from Greek arete (virtue) and gennao (to beget)
Adjective
- conducive|Conducive to or producing virtue.
Quotations
2004: This aretegenic (virtue producing) function of theology was at the heart of theology prior to modernity. — Richard J. Vincent in Practicing Theology: The Transformational Purpose of Theology
199?: Good theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue. — Colin E. Gunton in The Church as a School of Virtue?: Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, speaking before the Heidelberger Ã�kumenisches Forum (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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