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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... encyclical Aeterni patris, which called for the restoration of Catholic philosophy according to the mind and method of Thomas Aquinas.24 This imposition of neo- scholasticism had some positive results. However, the primary result was a ...
... encyclicals. Such was Bouquillon's role in this dispute that the New Catholic Ency- clopedia includes all the theoretical, practical, and historical aspects of this debate under the one entry “Bouquillon Controversy.”99 Bouquillon was ...
... encyclical, the encyclical did not portray what actually was occurring in the United States. Earlier, in his 1895 encyclical Longinqua oceani, Leo had praised aspects of the American Catholic Church but had maintained that the American ...
... Encyclicals on sexual issues (Casti connubii in 1930) and social issues (Quadra- gesimo anno in 1931) again highlighted the ... encyclical Humani generis, in which Pius XII understood the hierarchical mag- isterium as the proximate and ...
... encyclical Casti connubii, Pope Pius XI strongly condemned arti- ficial contraception as going against the nature and purpose of the sexual faculty and its act. “Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the ...