Christian theologians have based many of their ethical concepts on the philosophy of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Augustine focused on the relation between man and a personal God as the heart of the moral as well as the religious life. He integrated morality with the Christian love of God and neighbor. Aquinas related the Greek views mentioned by Aristotle to the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity. He also located the norm for ethical judgment in reason, both as the lawgiving reason of God and as human reason reflecting upon the needs of man's nature. - World Book Encyclopedia, 1968.
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