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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... understanding of penance, the sacrament was often called “confession” rather than “penance.” The first-year course covered human acts, conscience, sins, and the Decalogue, excluding the seventh commandment. The second year treated the ...
... understanding of conscience and the sacrament of penance. Although Alphonsus followed the manuals in seeing law as the primary ethical model and was concerned primarily with determining what actions were sinful and the degree to which ...
... understanding.5 Alphonsus followed the legal method of the manuals but with a somewhat nuanced understanding of that approach. Law constitutes the remote and mate- rial norm of human actions, but conscience is the proximate and formal ...
... understanding of moral theology in the Catholic Church in the nine- teenth century . Nineteenth - century Catholic Europe saw the growth and predominance of ul- tramontanism , literally meaning “ beyond the mountains . ” This was a ...
... understanding of moral theology (even though he did not use the term and did not see moral theology as separate from the rest of theology) had an entirely different focus and method in dealing with the study of Christian moral life ...