Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A HistoryGeorgetown University Press, 11/04/2008 - 368 من الصفحات In this magisterial volume Charles E. Curran surveys the historical development of Catholic moral theology in the United States from its 19th century roots to the present day. He begins by tracing the development of pre-Vatican II moral theology that, with the exception of social ethics, had the limited purpose of training future confessors to know what actions are sinful and the degree of sinfulness. Curran then explores and illuminates the post-Vatican II era with chapters on the effect of the Council on the scope and substance of moral theology, the impact of Humanae vitae, Pope Paul VI's encyclical condemning artificial contraception, fundamental moral theology, sexuality and marriage, bioethics, and social ethics. Curran's perspective is unique: For nearly 50 years, he has been a major influence on the development of the field and has witnessed first-hand the dramatic increase in the number and diversity of moral theologians in the academy and the Church. No one is more qualified to write this first and only comprehensive history of Catholic moral theology in the United States. |
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... Ford and Kelly published Contemporary Moral Theology, volume 1, Questions in Fundamental Moral Theology, which was to be part of an ongoing series expanding and updating their earlier “Notes” in Theological Studies.15 In the late 1950s Ford ...
... Ford and Kelly continued to see moral theology operating within a legal model. In keeping with the manuals, the objective norm of morality is law in all its different forms. Obligations and law remain the key categories.17 The “Notes ...
... Kelly, in his Medico-Moral Problems, refers to the teaching of Pope Pius XII on twenty-two specific issues.24 John P. Kenny's Principles of Medical Ethics lists in the index forty issues on which the pope has spoken.25 Ford and Kelly ...
... Ford and Kelly brought a more scholarly approach to moral theology, but they still accepted the basic approach of the manuals, defended the Catholic natural law approach and the teachings based on it, and maintained that theologians can ...
... Ford and Kelly, in their book on marriage written early in the 1960s, before the Second Vatican Council, present their understanding of the Catholic teaching on birth control. Their analysis gives primacy to the teaching of the papal ...