A Topic of Moral Theology

Stolidity and Impatience

Stolidity and Impatience, as treated in McHugh–Callan (Art. 7. The Virtue of Fortitude).

In the index as Impatience · Patience · Hardness · Longanimity · Stolidity

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, Stolidity and Impatience, n. 2455 — The Vices Opposed to Patience. The Vices Opposed to Patience.—(a) The sin of deficiency in sorrow is stolidity, which is a brutal insensibility that is moved neither by one’s own nor by others’ misfortunes. This is not a virtue, but an inhuman and unn… Read in context →

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: On the Virtue…, Question Three: On Patience and Longanimity, nn. ¶1, 923, 924, 925, 926 & 927 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. V, Disputation II: On the Vir…, Question VI: On the vices opposed to patience, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Patience — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Spirago · St. Alphonsus, True Spouse · Deshon, Guide — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)