theological virtue

noun

one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.

Origin of theological virtue

First recorded in 1520–30

If they inculcate virtue, it is that theological virtue whose inutility we have sufficiently shown.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
But religion is neither an intellectual nor a theological virtue, but a moral virtue, for it is part of justice.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life | St. Thomas Aquinas
Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess, but error.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I | Francis W. Halsey
The Baron, a very pious old man, practised that fine theological virtue which we used to cultivate at Blois—Hope!
Letters of Two Brides | Honore de Balzac
Righteousness is no hazy, theological virtue, having little to do with every-day life and small resemblance to secular morality.
The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Volume III | Alexander Maclaren

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