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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... positions . This role of a participant - observer is not an easy one . In this context I use the third person to refer to my past writings and actions and the first person to refer to the judgments and positions I take as the author of ...
... positions often associated with Jansenism, a French-based approach to the Christian moral life. These actions constituted ... position maintained that one had to follow the law unless the argument for freedom was more probable. (The word ...
... position on conscience; in fact, he actually goes beyond Aquinas. Aquinas maintained that an individual following an invincibly errone- ous conscience does not commit sin (the error is not the individual's fault), but the act itself is ...
... position is probable and can be safely followed in practice if there are intrinsic reasons to support it or if a number of authorities or previous authors held such a position to be probable. The method of the manuals was to cite the ...
... position of Alphonsus that the visit of betrothed couples to each other's house would inevitably lead to sin . Kenrick even became chauvin- istic on this point . Alphonsus took the harsher position based on what he regarded as the ...