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Resilience is a hot topic. Resilience research is burgeoning and discourse about resilience is ubiquitous in Western societies and institutions. In his groundbreaking book Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude, moral theologian Craig Steven Titus puts Thomas Aquinas' theory of fortitude in conversation with contemporary psychosocial science research to provide the latter with philosophical and anthropological resources. I aim to extend Titus' work by addressing four significant shortcomings in his appropriation of Aquinas: (1) he does not account for what Aquinas means by passion's object; (2) he does not account for the contributions that imagination and particular reason can make to the activation of passions; (3) he does not account for reason's relationship to imagination or particular reason; and (4) these shortcomings lead Titus to offer a distorted version of Aquinas' account of fear, one of the principal passions that Aquinas believes fortitude regulates.

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