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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... Moral theology has always experienced the tension between a more practical and pastoral approach, associated ... moral theology. Manuals of Moral Theology This chapter focuses on the origins of moral theology in the United States ...
... manuals of moral theology” that continued in exis- tence in the Catholic world until Vatican Council II in the 1960s. The new genre of moral theology, the Institutiones morales (generally referred to in English as the “manuals”), came ...
... moral life. These actions constituted the first major involvement of the papacy in specific moral actions and had the ... manuals. He began teaching Redemptorist students in 1744 and chose the manual of the Jesuit Hermann Busenbaum for a ...
... manuals but with a somewhat nuanced understanding of that approach. Law ... moral- ity.6 Thus, for example, Alphonsus recognizes that a person could be ... moral theology, which tended to become identified with the totality of moral ...
... moral theology of the manuals cut moral theology off from dogmatic theology, scripture, and sacra- mental theology. In fairness to Alphonsus, he was a person of his time responding to the needs of his time. Nineteenth-Century Catholic Moral ...