Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Seven Virtues. Bejczy, "the capital vices are more often contrasted with the remedial or contrary virtues in medieval moral literature than with the principal virtues, while the principal virtues are frequently accompanied by a set of mirroring vices rather than by the seven deadly sins". In modern times, the capital virtues are commonly identified as the following: VirtueĪlthough some medieval authors attempted to contrast the capital vices with the heavenly virtues, such efforts were rare. In AD 590, the seven capital vices were revised by Pope Gregory I, which led to the creation of new lists of corresponding capital virtues. The success of this work popularised the concept of capital virtues among medieval authors. The combatants in the Psychomachia are as follows: Basically, I told myself that all sins are committed equal. When I was younger, I had a particularly egalitarian view of sin. Part of the accusation of works-based salvation is the ranking, for lack of a better word, of sin. However, Prudentius did not base his allegory on the cardinal and theological virtues, nor did he use the traditional list of capital vices. Virtue and vice are not the end of Catholic moral theology. 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). 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. We owe our parents obedience and respect, so that is what we give them.
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". Since we owe God sincere worship, we offer Him true worship, from the heart.