Virtue and Vice: A Medieval Perspective | Dr. Grace Hamman

About this episode

Austin Suggs and Dr. Grace Hamman discuss Medieval Christians' approach to spiritual formation, focusing on virtue and vice.

In this video, I'm joined by Dr. Grace Hamman to discuss how Medieval Christians approached spiritual formation. We give special attention to their understanding of virtue and vice, exploring how that might help enrich our modern approaches to the Christian life. We also talk about how to read medieval theologians wisely, and what to do with some of the more extreme examples of piety that might make us uncomfortable today. Pre-order my novel, The Long Road to Holy Island: https://amzn.to/4s...

People in this episode

Host: Austin Suggs

Guest: Dr. Grace Hamman

Topics covered

• Medieval Christianity
• spiritual formation
• virtue
• vice
• theologians
• Christian life

Keywords

• Medieval Christians
• spiritual formation
• virtue
• vice
• theologians
• Christian life
• piety

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Books & works: The Long Road to Holy Island

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