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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... 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 this history ...
... role and mission in general and spe- cifically in the sacrament of penance. These two emphases in Trent gave rise to what became known as the “manuals of moral theology” that continued in exis- tence in the Catholic world until Vatican ...
... role of the confessor as father and doctor.8 Marciano Vidal goes so far as to maintain that Alphonsus brought about a Copernican revolution with regard to the sacrament of penance.9 In practice, Alphonsus sees the spiritual welfare of ...
... role of the papacy in the Church, and the isolation of moral theology from the political, economic, and intellectual influences of the nineteenth century. The manual remained the primary way of understanding moral theology. The intellec ...
... role of the papacy while supporting a greater role for the French Church . It was still quite strong at the beginning of the nineteenth century . In the eighteenth century , Febronianism in Germany and Josephinism in Austria tried to ...