Thétis

In the Théologie Christian scholastic seven virtues codified with the Moyen-âge are defined:

three theological Virtues (having God for object: cf I Co 13,13): Faith, hope, Charity. Two of these theological virtues are intended to disappear: indeed, at the end of times,

the faith does not have any more a raison d'être (since it is necessary no more to doubt the existence of God, who appears with all),
either that the hope , since all that there was place to hope is already there (and which damnés admittedly do not have for their part to hope for more anything).
only thus remains the love , alias charity ( caritas means in Latin affection ).

four cardinal Virtues (on which the moral life rests, i.e. relating to manners, the behaviors, and not like the preceding ones with the states of the heart; Latin cardo , hinge, because it is on them that articulates control): Justice, prudence, force, Temperance.

These four virtues had already been catalogued like such by the Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristote, the Stoical ones) and Latin. One also finds them in the hellenized Judaism and in the Fathers of the Church.

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