J. Warren Smith is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (2004) and Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (2011).

'… Smith has made a useful contribution in a complex field. His book will be read with profit by students of Latin patristic ethics and its hinterlands.' Ivor J. Davidson, Scottish Journal of Theology

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch: 1. greatness of soul: the perfection of classical virtue; 2. The roman ideal of great-souled men; Part II. Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians: 3. Law, gospel, and exemplary patriarchs; 4. Toward a higher greatness: re-narrating perfection; 5. Beyond honor and shame; Part III. Augustine and the Magnus Animus: 6. The 'sublime indifference' of greatness?; 7. The witness of death and the witness of conscience: Lucretia and the shaming of roman virtue; Epilogue: the end of virtue; Abbreviations; Bibliography.

J. Warren Smith is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (2004) and Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (2011).

'… Smith has made a useful contribution in a complex field. His book will be read with profit by students of Latin patristic ethics and its hinterlands.' Ivor J. Davidson, Scottish Journal of Theology

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch: 1. greatness of soul: the perfection of classical virtue; 2. The roman ideal of great-souled men; Part II. Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians: 3. Law, gospel, and exemplary patriarchs; 4. Toward a higher greatness: re-narrating perfection; 5. Beyond honor and shame; Part III. Augustine and the Magnus Animus: 6. The 'sublime indifference' of greatness?; 7. The witness of death and the witness of conscience: Lucretia and the shaming of roman virtue; Epilogue: the end of virtue; Abbreviations; Bibliography.

J. Warren Smith is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (2004) and Christian Grace and Pagan Virtue: The Theological Foundation of Ambrose's Ethics (2011).

'… Smith has made a useful contribution in a complex field. His book will be read with profit by students of Latin patristic ethics and its hinterlands.' Ivor J. Davidson, Scottish Journal of Theology

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Problem of Greatness and the Great-Souled Man from Plato to Plutarch: 1. greatness of soul: the perfection of classical virtue; 2. The roman ideal of great-souled men; Part II. Ambrose's Great-Souled Christians: 3. Law, gospel, and exemplary patriarchs; 4. Toward a higher greatness: re-narrating perfection; 5. Beyond honor and shame; Part III. Augustine and the Magnus Animus: 6. The 'sublime indifference' of greatness?; 7. The witness of death and the witness of conscience: Lucretia and the shaming of roman virtue; Epilogue: the end of virtue; Abbreviations; Bibliography.