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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... issues. Within moral theology different divisions exist to facilitate the study of the subject matter of the discipline itself. This volume follows the often-used divi- sions of fundamental moral theology, sexual, bioethical, and social ...
... issues, but the Summa of Antoninus of Florence (d. 1459) was more systematic, providing a good picture of the life of fifteenth- century Florence. Among other topics, long discussions were included of the obli- gations of all the ...
... issue was the uncertainty that arose when the existence of a law or obligation was doubt- ful. Historians describe this ... issues. His commonsense approach led him to consider all the different circumstances of a case. Alphonsus himself ...
... issues were often submitted to the curial congregations for a response . Sabetti himself , in his manual and in a longer article in the American Ecclesiastical Review , dealt with the issues of abortion , craniotomy , and ectopic ...
... issues, I do not claim expertise in this area. In what follows I depend heavily on Vereecke and other secondary sources. 2. Vereecke, “History of Moral Theology,” New Catholic Encyclopedia 9:1120. 3. Vereecke, “Concile de Trent.” 4 ...