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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... individual country . In the world of theology in general and moral theology in particular , Europe was the primary home of Catholic theology well into the post – Vatican II era . Books by European authors frequently had English ...
... individuals. The Institutiones morales, or manuals, came into existence to train seminar- ians for the hearing of confessions in their future ministry. In a sense, they were a creative adaptation to the needs of the time, but ...
... individual following an invincibly errone- ous conscience does not commit sin (the error is not the individual's fault), but the act itself is not good. Alphonsus, with his understanding of conscience as the formal norm of action ...
... individual who had struggled against rigorism in his day was now used to combat the moral laxism of the times.22 All moral theologians in the late nine- teenth century and the first half of the twentieth century claimed to be following ...
... individual dioceses to start small seminaries in the house of the bishop, which usually had very few students and only one pro- fessor responsible for all the courses in addition to his other pastoral work. As the century progressed ...