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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... basic approach of the manuals, defended the Catholic natural law approach and the teachings based on it, and maintained that theologians can- not disagree with a papal teaching on a moral issue. Also beginning in 1940, Francis J ...
... basic approach to all issues, including sexuality. Sexual teaching was based on natural law. The eter- nal law is the plan or ordering of God for the world, and the natural law is the participation of the eternal law in the rational ...
... basic approach in his book on medical ethics that he and Ford later developed in their book on marriage. In fact, Kelly explains in detail the relationship between human reason and the authority of Church teaching in his discussion of ...
... basic principles and most of their applications were certain and unchangeable. Principles The textbooks of medical ethics followed the casuist approach of moving from principles to their application to particular questions. The most ...
... basic questions: When does truly individual human life or the human person begin to exist, and how do you solve conflict situations? At this time, most other religions and the general public condemned abortion but recognized some ...