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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... sins to a priest who imposed a penance and through the mercy and forgiveness of God absolved the sinner and reconciled the sinner to the community of the Church and to God. The older form of penance was called “public penance” and ...
... sins once a year, the fifteenth century saw a crisis with regard to the use of auricular confession. Trent reiter- ated the obligation to confess mortal sins once a year. In addition to addressing the practical problem, Trent also ...
... sin. The confessor also determines an appropriate penance. Trent overemphasized the juridical nature of penance, but its ... sins, and the Decalogue, excluding the seventh commandment. The second year treated the seventh commandment ...
... sinful and the degree to which each was sinful, he showed a sen- sitive pastoral prudence in regard to the solution of particular cases and issues. His commonsense approach led him to consider all the different circumstances of a case ...
... sin (the error is not the individual's fault), but the act itself is not good. Alphonsus, with his understanding of conscience as the formal norm of action, maintains, in fact, that a person acting with an invincibly erroneous ...