Recovering the Virtues in This Age of Vice: Four New Books

April 27th, 2026 | 11 min read

Matthew Arbo. The Pursuit of Character: Recovering the Virtues. Baker Books, 2026. $19.99. 160 pp.

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Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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Recovering the Virtues in This Age of Vice: Four New Books

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