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aretegenic

aretegenic adjective: conducive to or producing virtue.

Adjective

aretegenic

  1. Conducive to or producing virtue.
    • This aretegenic (virtue producing) function of theology was at the heart of theology prior to modernity.2004, Richard J. Vincent, Practicing Theology: The Transformational Purpose of Theology
    • 199?,, Colin E. Gunton, in The Church as a School of Virtue?: Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, speaking before the Heidelberger Ökumenisches Forum
      Good theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue.

Origin of aretegenic

Coined by Episcopalian theologian Ellen T. Charry in 1997 in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" →ISBN. From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) and γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”).

Questions about aretegenic

What does aretegenic mean?
Aretegenic means conducive to or producing virtue.
What part of speech is aretegenic?
Aretegenic is an adjective.

Words near aretegenic in the dictionary

  1. arete
  2. aretecracies
  3. aretecracy
  4. aretecrat
  5. aretecratic
  6. aretegenic
  7. areteology
  8. aretes
  9. arethusa
  10. arethusas
  11. Arethuse

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