Virtue Rewired: How Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science Can Transform Your Habits

Description

Why do good intentions so often fail?

Most of us know the person we want to become. We resolve to be more patient, more disciplined, more prayerful, and within weeks we are back where we started. The problem is rarely a lack of desire. It is that character is built from habits, and habits follow patterns most of us have never been taught.

Virtue Rewired brings two great sources of insight into conversation: the Church’s ancient wisdom on the virtues, above all in St. Thomas Aquinas, and what modern science has discovered about how habits are formed, broken and remade.

What will you find inside?

A clear account of what a virtue is and why Aquinas called it a habit, the cardinal and theological virtues and the vices that oppose them, and practical ways to put the findings of habit psychology to work in daily life. Throughout, the book shows how grace, prayer and the sacraments work with our own effort, so that growth in virtue becomes a path to holiness and not only self-improvement. Scripture is quoted from the Douay-Rheims (Challoner) translation.

Is there a companion workbook?

Yes. The Virtue Rewired Companion Workbook turns each chapter into reflection questions and exercises for personal use, study groups and classrooms.

Who is the author?

Robert Milan has spent more than twenty years in Catholic education and faith formation, teaching primary, secondary and adult groups. He holds degrees in psychology and religious education, and writes at EternallyCatholic.com, where the motto is "Educating for Eternity."

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