Abstract
The description of the encounter between the thief and the crucified Christ in Luke's Gospel introduces a difficult problem into the moral teachings of Christianity. It presents a particularly vexing question to a Christian moralist, who attempts to reconcile the philosophical ideal of habitual virtue with the religious belief in a dramatic conversion and the immediate acceptance of divine precepts. The Christian doctrines concerning the corruption of human nature and its subsequent perfection through the infusion of divine grace present formidable challenges to a moral theorist who has read the work of Aristotle. Christian theologians, like Thomas of the sermons, Bonaventure, Eckhart, and the author of the dialogues, then must reject rational ethics in favor of a theory that claims an old woman through faith knows more about the good life than the philosophers with all their efforts. Keywords:Aristotle; christianity; Gospel; philosophers; religious belief; theologians; thief
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