Dr. Joel Biermann and Fr. Michael Sherwin on Virtue in Catholic and Lutheran Traditions

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Virtue and Flourishing in the Catholic and Lutheran Traditions: A Moral Ecology Trust Conference For millennia, the formation of good character was the primary aim of education in the home, school, congregation, and community. Two historic communities—the Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions—offer rich resources that have fed institutions for centuries with the theory, teaching, and habits to form good people, virtuous citizens, and wise leaders. But this aim has all but disappeared from our institutions and societies. To address this, three leading philosophers and theologians from each of these two traditions will speak about the theory, the teaching, and the practical work that can be recovered in late modernity to form character and virtue for the flourishing of all. This first session features talks from Dr. Jordan B. Cooper and Fr. Ezra Sullivan. Jordan Cooper is an ordained Lutheran pastor, the Executive Director of Just & Sinner, Fellow of Systematic Theology at the Weidner Institute, and the Chair of Lutheran Dogmatics at the American Lutheran Theological Seminary. Ezra Sullivan, OP, is a professor of moral theology and psychology at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum).