From the earliest days of the Christian faith, great theologians and leaders of the church were profoundly concerned with the development of virtue. Over the centuries, the Church Fathers and ascetics, mystics, and scholastics of the Middle Ages honed a cohesive system of thought and practice to combat seven entrenched vices with specific virtues. Drawing from a rich heritage of spiritual writings from the ancient and medieval church, Heidi White will explore the largely forgotten tradition of spiritual formation through the cultivation of the seven capital virtues.