Introduction to Moral Theology

Introduction to Moral Theology
Author: Romanus Cessario
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813220378

The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this first book in the Catholic Moral Thought series has been widely recognized as an authoritative resource on such topics as moral theology and the good of the human person created in God’s image; natural law; principles of human action; determination of the moral good through objects, ends, and circumstances; and the virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes. The Catholic Moral Thought series is designed to provide students with a comprehensive presentation of both the principles of Christian conduct and the specific teachings and precepts for fulfilling the requirements of the Christian life. Soundly based in the teaching of the Church, the volumes set out the basic principles of Catholic moral thought and the application of those principles within areas of ethical concern that are of paramount importance today.

New Wine, New Wineskins

New Wine, New Wineskins
Author: William C. Mattison
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780742532465

The growing shift in Catholic moral theology from reflecting on rules alone to focusing on the identity and formation of persons as moral agents prompts a further question: What impact do recent changes in the identity and formation of Catholic moral theologians themselves have on how that discipline is practiced? Young Catholic moral theologians experience a sharply different professional formation and a changed location of ongoing professional life than prior generations of moral theologians. How do these differences influence the field of moral theology as a whole? New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology addresses these questions and more by offering a snapshot of how a new generation of Catholic moral theologians understands not only topics in the field, but the effects of their own identity and formation on their treatment of those topics. The distinctive contribution of this volume is the interweaving of three key concerns, all of which arise out of a critical self-reflection on the task of moral theology today: the character and adequacy of training and ongoing formation in the field of Catholic moral theology, the purpose and nature of teaching Catholic moral theology, and the fittingness of methodological debates with regard to the needs of the Christian life. Each essay makes a contribution to its specific area of interest-ranging from economic ethics, to Patristic rhetoric, to the nature and development of practical reasoning-while probing what exactly young Catholic moral theologians are doing, and how they can do what they do better.

Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health

Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health
Author: Philip J. Landrigan
Publisher: Global Theological Ethics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Environmental health
ISBN: 9781725291737

The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. -- Provided by publisher.

Renewing Moral Theology

Renewing Moral Theology
Author: Daniel A. Westberg
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083082460X

Moral theology, rooted in Thomas Aquinas, has long found its home in the Catholic and Anglican traditions, and in recent years it has become more familiar through the perspective known as virtue ethics. Renewing Moral Theology unfolds an ethical perspective that is Thomistic in structure, evangelical in conviction and Anglican in ethos.

Catholic Moral Theology in the United States

Catholic Moral Theology in the United States
Author: Charles E. Curran
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2008-04-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589012917

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.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 1, Number 1

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 1, Number 1
Author: David M. Cloutier
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-12-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625644507

Formative Figures of Contemporary American Catholic Moral Theology Volume 1, Number 1, January 2012 Edited by David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III Moral Theology in the Ruins: Introducing the Journal of Moral Theology David Matzko McCarthy Bernard Häring’s Influence on American Catholic Moral Theology James F. Keenan, S.J. Servais Pinckaers and the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology Craig Steven Titus Religious Freedom, Morality and Law: John Courtney Murray Today David Hollenbach, S.J. James M. Gustafson and Catholic Theological Ethics Lisa Sowle Cahill The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology John Grabowski Stanley Hauerwas’s Influence on Catholic Moral Theologians Jana Marguerite Bennett Review Essay: Method in American Catholic Moral Theology After Veritatis Splendor David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III

Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II

Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II
Author: Janet E. Smith
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1947792725

Janet E. Smith has been among the world’s preeminent voices in the study of the issues raised by Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical letter Humanae vitae. Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II presents Smith’s critical collection of essays on the vocation of marriage, human sexuality, contraception, and more. Her groundbreaking scholarship touches on all the areas implicated in Humanae vitae: from natural family planning to parenthood and natural law to personalism. This collection not only includes Smith’s English translation of the encyclical from the original Latin text, but also helpful background on the development and release of this authoritative magisterial document. With a particular emphasis on the personalist and Thomistic philosophy of Pope St. John Paul II and how it illuminates the two-millennia tradition of Catholic teaching on human sexuality, Self-Gift delivers crucial insight into the Creator’s plan for human sexuality and our full flourishing in Christ.

Family Ethics

Family Ethics
Author: Julie Hanlon Rubio
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 158901667X

How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic theology of marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played out: the family. Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep connections within the family and help families live out their calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that most Christians can live out their faith—and contribute to progress in the world.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 12, Issue 1

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 12, Issue 1
Author: M. Therese Lysaught
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-01-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666768642

Outing Gay Priests: Toward a Theological Ethics of Privacy in the Digital Era Levi Checketts Pope Francis's Apology to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada Doris M. Kieser The Papal Apology and Seeds of an Action Plan Archbishop Donald Bolen Papal Apologies for Residential Schools and the Stories They Tell Jeremy M. Bergen Pope Francis's Apology Encounter and Meaning Christine Jamieson Missed Opportunities and Hope for Healing: Reflections of an Indigenous Catholic Priest--Interview with Fr. Daryold Winkler Doris M. Kieser and Jane Barter Walking Apart and Walking Together: Indigenous Public Reception of the Papal Visit Jane Barter Dialogue after Dobbs: Introduction M. Therese Lysaught, Mari Rapela Heidt, Mary Doyle Roche, and Kate Ward Intentional Killing or Right to Bodily Integrity: Can We Bridge the Moral Languages of Abortion? M. Cathleen Kaveny Towards Universal Communion Simeiqi He Captive Minds and Civil Dialogue: A Reflection on Catholic Universities in the Post-Dobbs Era David E. DeCosse Discerning the Roles of Reason and Emotion in Classroom Conversations about Abortion Jane Sloan Peters Holding the Tensions: Female Bodily Integrity as an Intrinsic Good Kathleen Bonnette Catholic Higher Education and Student Formation in a Post-Roe World: A Modest Proposal for Women's Personhood and Reproductive Autonomy Maria Teresa Davila Danger Invites Rescue: An Argument for Legal Protection of Unborn Life Holly Taylor Coolman A Call to Truth-Telling Jana M. Bennett Wisdom from a Reproductive Justice Framework Emily Reimer-Barry Substance and Style in the Prolife Discourse Daniel Daly Intellectual Hospitality as Guiding Virtue in Campus Conversations on Abortion Megan Halteman Zwart Lisa Allen, A Womanist Theology of Worship: Liturgy, Justice, and Communal Righteousness Xavier M. Montecel Anthony M. Annett, Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy M. Therese Lysaught Gerald A. Arbuckle, The Pandemic and the People of God: Cultural Impacts and Pastoral Responses Megan Bowen Jessica Coblentz, Dust in Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression Andrew Staron Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women Fiona May Kay Li Jurgen Moltmann, Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising Steven G. Rindahl Lincoln Rice, ed., The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker Marc Tumeinski Olga M. Segura, Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church Kate Ward Mark P. Shea, The Church's Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching Marcus Mescher Kate Ward, Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck: Christian Ethics in an Age of Inequality Edward A. David J. Lenore Wright, Athena to Barbie: Bodies, Archetypes, and Women's Search for Self Kathleen Cavender-McCoy

Resurrection and Moral Imagination

Resurrection and Moral Imagination
Author: Sarah Bachelard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317064607

Moral life gathers its shape, force and meaning in relation to an underlying sense of reality, imaginatively conceived. Significant contemporary writing in philosophy appeals to the concept of ’transcendence’ to explore what is deepest in our moral experience, but leaves this notion theologically unspecified. This book reflects on the appeal to transcendence in ethics with reference to the Resurrection of Jesus. Bachelard argues that the Resurrection reveals that the ultimate reality in which human life is held is gracious, forgiving and reconciling, a Goodness that is ’for us’. Faith in this testimony transforms the possibilities of moral life, both conceptually and in practice. It invites our participation in a goodness experienced non-dualistically as grace, and so profoundly affects the formation of the moral self, the practice of moral judgement and the shape of moral concepts. From this perspective, contemporary philosophical discussion about 'transcendence' in moral thought is cast in a new light, and debates about the continuity between theological and secular ethics gain a thoroughly new dimension. Bachelard demonstrates that placing the Resurrection at the heart of our ethical reflection resonates with the deepest currents of our lived moral experience and transfigures our approach to moral life and thought.