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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... conscience, and human actions in general that come into play in all the different areas and issues of hu- man moral activity. The division among sexual, bioethical, and social moral theol- ogy derives from the areas and subjects ...
... conscience, sins, and the Decalogue, excluding the seventh commandment. The second year treated the seventh commandment, sacraments, censures, and the different duties of particu- lar individuals. The Institutiones morales, or manuals ...
... conscience and the sacrament of penance. Although Alphonsus followed the manuals in seeing law as the primary ethical model and was concerned primarily with determining what actions were sinful and the degree to which each was sinful ...
... conscience is the proximate and formal norm of human actions. The formal norm ultimately gives final meaning to the act. Con- science should follow the dictates of the law, but the goodness of human action becomes known to us through ...
... conscience, Alphonsus refers to Aquinas as “the most distinguished [princeps] of theologians.”27 As a result of these factors it was easy to conclude that Aquinas and Alphon- sus used the same approach to moral theology. Church ...