aretegenic

English

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”).

Adjective

aretegenic

1. Conducive to or producing virtue.
   • 2004, Richard J. Vincent, Practicing Theology: The Transformational Purpose of Theology‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

conducive to or producing virtue

Anagrams

• great-niece