aretegenic

Definition

Conducive to or producing virtue.

Etymology

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”).

Example Sentences

• "This aretegenic (virtue producing) function of theology was at the heart of theology prior to modernity."
• "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."