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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... insistence on the founding of seminaries to ensure that future priests were trained to carry out their role and mission in general and spe- cifically in the sacrament of penance. These two emphases in Trent gave rise to what became ...
... insisted on a Liguorian school of moral theology, neglected Alphonsus's emphasis on God's mercy and the role of prudence in the application of the law, and used him to defend the status quo and oppose any new developments in the Church ...
... insisting that one cannot appeal to the Old Testament to disagree with some existing teachings of the Church. Sacred ... insisted that moral theology could be renewed by the following steps: use of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, a ...
... insisted on neo-scholasticism as the Catholic philosophy and theology. There was to be no dialogue with modern thought. After the condemnation of modernism, all Catho- lic professors and priests had to take an oath against modernism ...
... insisted that married couples have a duty to procreate, but serious reasons or indications of a medical, eugenic, economic, or social nature can excuse them from the positive obligation to pro- create for a long time and even for the ...