![]() The combatants in the Psychomachia are as follows: However, Prudentius did not base his allegory on the cardinal and theological virtues, nor did he use the traditional list of capital vices. His poem Psychomachia depicts a battle between female personifications of virtues and vices, with each virtue confronting and defeating a particular vice. ![]() Prudentius, writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues. The seven capital virtues (also known as the contrary or remedial virtues) are those thought to stand in opposition to the seven capital vices (or deadly sins). ![]() ![]() Thomas Aquinas believed that while the cardinal virtues could be formed through habitual practice, the theological virtues could only be practised by divine grace. The traditional understanding of the difference between cardinal and theological virtues is that the latter are not fully accessible to humans in their natural state without assistance from God. ![]() The theological virtues are those named by Paul the Apostle in 1 Corinthians 13: "So faith, hope, love remain, these three but the greatest of these is love." The word "love" ( agape in Greek) is translated in the King James Bible as "charity". ![]()
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