The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics

The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics
Author: Anna Abram
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3038427713

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics" that was published in Religions

Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future

Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future
Author: James F. Keenan
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1570759413

Theological ethicists confront key questions and issues from around the globe to provide a 'state of the art' volume in 21st-century moral theology.

Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics

Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics
Author: Joseph A. Selling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198767129

Traditionally, Catholic moral theology has been based upon an approach that over-emphasized the role of normative ethics and subsequently associated moral responsibility with following or disobeying moral rules. Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics offers an alternative ethical method which, without destroying any of the valuable insights of normative ethics, reorients the discipline to consider human motivation and intention before investigating behavioral options for realizing one's end. Evidence from the New Testament warrants the formation of a teleological method for theological ethics which is further elaborated in the approach taken by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, the insights of the latter were misinterpreted at the time of the counter-reformation. Joseph A. Selling's analysis of moral theological textbooks demonstrates the entrenchment of a normative method aimed at identifying sins in service to the practice of sacramental confession. With a firm basis in the teaching of Vatican II, the "human person integrally and adequately considered" provides the fundamental criterion for approaching ethical issues in the contemporary world. The perspective then turns to the crucial question of describing the ends or goals of ethical living by providing a fresh approach to the concept of virtue. Selling concludes with suggestions about how to combine normative ethics with this alternative method in theological ethics that begins with the actual, ethical orientation of the human person toward virtuous living.

Time Past, Time Future

Time Past, Time Future
Author: John A. Gallagher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1990
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A complete history of modern moral theology textbooks which survey four centuries of origins and development of the Church's mode of present moral theology and then analyzes its collapse in the present half-century. What develops is a comprehensive reflection of what has indeed emerged as modern moral theology in the Catholic Church. The author particularly emphasizes the traditions of the manuals of theology and offers exceptionally thorough evaluations and explanations for the changes reflected in modern moral theology manuals.

Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics

Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics
Author: James M. Gustafson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1978
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226311082

"If Catholic and Protestant ethicians were asked to name a single theologian who was qualified to write a comprehensive overview of the historical divergences of Catholic and Protestant positions on ethical questions, the bases for those divergences in fundamentally different philosophical and theological perspectives, and the possibilities for future convergences of the traditions, my guess is that James Gustafson would be the one. . . . This brilliant and tightly argued book . . . will be the most important book on moral theology to appear this year."—John Coleman, National Catholic Reporter

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.

Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future

Catholic Theological Ethics, Past, Present, and Future
Author: James F. Keenan
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608330702

An international meeting in Trento in July 2010 brought together some 500 theological ethicists from nearly 75 countries. This volume represents the "state of the art" in mural theology from around the globe, with contributors from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Divided into three main parts (the past, the present, and the future), contributors include John W. O'Malley (foreword); Monsignor Luigi Bressan, Archbishop of Trento; James F. Keenan; Archbishop Bruno Forte; Mercy Amba Oduyoye (Ghana); Ahmad Syafii Ma'arif, Ma'arif Institut (Indonesia), Paolo Prodi (Italy), Laurenti Magesa (Kenya), Regina Ammicht-Quinn Germany, Alberto Bondolfi (Switzerland), Diego Alonso-Lasheras (Italy), Roger Burggraeve (Belgium), Anne Nasimiyu (Kenya), Bryan Massingale (US), Antonio Moser (Brazil). ric Gaziaux (Belgium), Margaret Farley (US), Benezet Bujo (Switzerland), Brian Johnstone (US), Miguel ngel S nchez Carlos (Mexico), David Kaulem (Zimbabwe), Leo Pessini (Brazil), Pushpa Joseph (India), Margaret Ogala (Kenya), Julie Hanlon Rubio (US), Aloysius Cartagenas (Philippines), Christa Schnabl (Austria), Simone Morandini (Italy), Myroslav Marynovych (Ukraine), Peter Henriot (Zambia), Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising (Germany), Julie Clague (Scotland), Shaji George Kochuthara (India), and Mar a Teresa D vila (US).

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.

Peter Singer and Christian Ethics

Peter Singer and Christian Ethics
Author: Charles C. Camosy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521199158

This book explores a number of important issues to illuminate the common ground between Peter Singer and Christian ethics.

Biblical Ethics in the 21st Century

Biblical Ethics in the 21st Century
Author: Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809148370

Reviews and critiques the major attempts at biblical ethics over the past twenty years by both biblical theologians and theological ethicists, focusing on New Testament ethics as an illustration.