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9781931709927
Introduction to Moral Theology / Edition 2 available in Paperback, eBook
Introduction to Moral Theology / Edition 2
by William E. May
William E. May
- ISBN-10:
- 1931709920
- ISBN-13:
- 9781931709927
- Pub. Date:
- 03/07/2007
- Publisher:
- Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division
- ISBN-10:
- 1931709920
- ISBN-13:
- 9781931709927
- Pub. Date:
- 03/07/2007
- Publisher:
- Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division
Introduction to Moral Theology / Edition 2
by William E. May
William E. May
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Overview
Here - carefully documented, footnoted, and indexed - is not only what the Church teaches but also why it is obligated to do so. And, why its members are obligated to examine and to apply that teaching.
This updated and expanded edition of a text long trusted and widely used in colleges, universities, and seminaries (as well as in high schools and parish religious-education programs), offers the latest Catholic teaching on moral theology, including:
- Moral theology: its nature, purpose, and biblical foundation
- Human dignity, free human action, virtue, and conscience
- Natural law, moral absolutes, and sin
- Christian faith and our moral life
Read why - and how - living what the Church teaches can transform hearts, minds, and souls.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781931709927 |
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Publisher: | Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division |
Publication date: | 03/07/2007 |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 314 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Table of Contents
Foreword to the First Edition | 13 | |
Introduction to the Second Edition | 15 | |
Key to Abbreviations of Biblical Books | 21 | |
Chapter 1 | Moral Theology: Its Nature, Purpose, and Biblical Foundation | 23 |
The Moral Life--An Introductory Description | 23 | |
The Nature, Purpose, and Renewal of Moral Theology | 23 | |
1. | Who We Are and Who We Are Meant to Be in the Light of Faith | 23 |
2. | Theology and Moral Theology | 26 |
3. | The Function and Purpose of Moral Theology | 26 |
4. | The Renewal of Moral Theology | 27 |
Moral Theology and Holy Scripture | 31 | |
Conclusion | 37 | |
Notes for Chapter 1 | 37 | |
Chapter 2 | Human Dignity, Free Human Action, Virtue, and Conscience | 41 |
1. | Three Kinds of Human Dignity | 41 |
2. | Free Choice | 44 |
3. | The Significance of Human Action and the Meaning of Character | 47 |
4. | Virtue and Our Moral Life | 48 |
A. | Grisez on Virtue | 52 |
B. | St. Thomas Aquinas on Virtue | 53 |
C. | Virtue-based Ethics and Principles-based Ethics | 56 |
5. | Conscience and Our Moral Life | 57 |
Notes for Chapter 2 | 65 | |
Chapter 3 | The Natural Law and Moral Life | 71 |
Introduction | 71 | |
Natural Law in St. Thomas Aquinas | 71 | |
1. | The Basic Understanding of Law in the Summa Theologiae | 72 |
2. | Eternal Law | 73 |
3. | Natural Law: Its Central Meaning and Character | 73 |
4. | 'Primary' Precepts of Natural Law, Precepts 'Close to' Primary Precepts, and Other Precepts of Natural Law | 76 |
Excursus 1 | St. Thomas and Ulpian's Definition of Natural Law | 80 |
Excursus 2 | St. Thomas's Teaching on Natural Law in the Summa Contra Gentes | 84 |
Natural Law, Vatican Council II, and Pope John Paul II | 87 | |
1. | Natural Law and Vatican Council II | 87 |
2. | Natural Law in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II | 91 |
Natural Law in the Thought of Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Joseph Boyle | 93 | |
1. | The First Principle of Practical Reasoning and Its General Specifications | 94 |
2. | The First Principle of Morality and the Ideal of 'Integral Human Fulfillment' | 98 |
3. | The Specifications of the First Principle of Morality: The Modes of Responsibility | 102 |
4. | From Modes of Responsibility to Specific Moral Norms | 105 |
5. | Moral Priorities, Religion, and God | 106 |
6. | A Summary of the Natural Law Teaching of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 111 |
7. | An Assessment of the Thought of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle on Natural Law | 113 |
Natural Law in the Thought of Martin Rhonheimer | 119 | |
1. | Areas of Agreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 119 |
2. | Areas of Disagreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 120 |
A. | Two Levels of Practical Reason: The Perceptive-Practical and the Descriptive-Reflexive | 120 |
B. | The Relationship Between Natural Law and Virtue | 122 |
C. | The Movement From the First or Common Principles of Natural Law to the 'Proximate' or 'Immediate' Conclusions | 123 |
Conclusion | 124 | |
Notes for Chapter 3 | 125 | |
Chapter 4 | Moral Absolutes | 141 |
Introduction | 141 | |
1. | The Revisionist Rejection of Moral Absolutes | 142 |
A. | Clarifying the Terminology | 145 |
B. | Arguments to Support the Revisionists' Denial of Moral Absolutes | 146 |
I. | The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | 146 |
II. | The Nature of a Human Act as a Totality | 148 |
III. | The Historicity of Human Existence | 150 |
2. | A Critique of Revisionist Denial of Moral Absolutes | 151 |
I. | The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | 152 |
II. | The Nature of a Human Act as a Whole or Totality | 156 |
III. | The Historicity of Human Existence and Moral Absolutes | 157 |
3. | A Defense of the Truth of Moral Absolutes | 159 |
Notes for Chapter 4 | 164 | |
Appendix I To Chapter Four: St. Thomas and Moral Absolutes | 170 | |
Notes for Appendix I to Chapter Four | 174 | |
Appendix II To Chapter Four: Pope John Paul II and Moral Absolutes | 176 | |
1. | The Moral Specification of Human Acts | 176 |
2. | The Criteria for Assessing the Moral Goodness or Badness of Human Acts | 177 |
3. | Moral Absolutes Protect the Inviolable Dignity of Human Persons and Point the Way Toward Fulfillment in Christ | 179 |
4. | The Incoherence of Ethical Theories Denying the Existence of Intrinsically Evil Acts and Absolute Moral Norms | 181 |
5. | The Infallibility of the Teaching Found in Veritatis Splendor | 182 |
Chapter 5 | Sin and the Moral Life | 185 |
1. | The Core Meaning of Sin | 185 |
A. | The Biblical Understanding of Sin | 185 |
B. | The Understanding of Sin in the Catholic Theological Tradition | 189 |
2. | The Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | 194 |
A. | Biblical and Magisterial Sources for This Distinction | 194 |
B. | The Classical Theological Understanding of This Distinction | 196 |
C. | Fundamental Option Theories and the Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | 198 |
D. | Fundamental Commitments, the Christian Way of Life, and Mortal Sin | 203 |
3. | The Role of Sin in Our Moral Lives: The Way of Sin to Death | 205 |
Notes for Chapter 5 | 207 | |
Chapter 6 | Christian Faith and Our Moral Life | 211 |
1. | The Existential Context of Our Moral Life | 211 |
2. | Jesus, the Foundation of the Christian Moral Life | 215 |
3. | Our Baptismal Commitment and Personal Vocation | 221 |
4. | Christian Love, the Principle of Our Life in Christ | 227 |
5. | The Beatitudes, Specifying the Requirements of Christian Love | 229 |
6. | The Question of Specific Christian Moral Norms | 233 |
7. | The Practicality of the Christian Moral Life | 236 |
Conclusion | 239 | |
Notes for Chapter 6 | 240 | |
Chapter 7 | The Church as Moral Teacher | 245 |
1. | Teaching and Pastoral Authority Within the Church | 245 |
2. | Specific Moral Norms Infallibly Taught by the Magisterium | 250 |
3. | What Response Should Be Given to Moral Teachings of the Magisterium Proposed Authoritatively But Not Infallibly? | 257 |
Notes for Chapter 7 | 265 | |
Chapter 8 | Christian Moral Life and John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor | 269 |
Detailed Exposition of Pope John Paul II's Teaching | 269 | |
The Introduction and an Overview of the Document | 269 | |
Chapter 1 | Christ and the Answer to the Question About Morality | 270 |
A. | Principal Ideas Set Forth in Chapter One | 271 |
I. | The Religious and Existential Significance of the Young Man's Question | 271 |
II. | The Sovereignty of God Over the Moral Order | 271 |
III. | The Essential Link Between Obedience to the Commandments and Eternal Life | 272 |
IV. | The 'Fulfillment' of the Law in Jesus; the Universal Call to Perfection | 272 |
V. | Moral Life, the Unity of the Church, and Revelation | 273 |
VI. | The More-than-human Authority of the Magisterium on Moral Questions | 273 |
B. | Dionigi Tettamanzi's Analysis of Chapter One | 274 |
I. | The Christocentric Meaning of Our Moral Life | 274 |
II. | The Ecclesial Dimension of Christian Moral Life | 275 |
Chapter 2 | The Church and the Discernment of Certain Tendencies in Present-day Moral Theology | 275 |
Introduction | 275 | |
I. | Freedom and the Law | 277 |
II. | Conscience and the Truth | 278 |
III. | Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior | 279 |
IV. | The Moral Act | 281 |
Chapter 3 | Moral Good for the Life of the Church and of the World | 283 |
Introduction | 283 | |
I. | The Relationship Between Human Freedom and the Truth | 284 |
II. | The Intimate and Inseparable Unity of Faith and Morality | 285 |
III. | The Relationship Between Respect for Personal Dignity and Refusal to Engage in Intrinsically Evil Acts | 285 |
IV. | The Absolute Need for God's Grace to Live a Morally Upright Life | 286 |
V. | The Service of Moral Theologians | 286 |
VI. | The Responsibility of Bishops | 286 |
Reactions to the Encyclical | 286 | |
The Selling-Jans Book: The Splendor of Accuracy | 287 | |
Richard McCormick's 'Some Early Reactions to Veritatis Splendor' and Martin Rhonheimer's Critique of McCormick | 288 | |
J. A. DiNoia's 'Veritatis Splendor: Moral Life as Transfigured Life' | 292 | |
Conclusion | 294 | |
Notes for Chapter 8 | 294 | |
Appendix | Christian Moral Life and the Catechism of the Catholic Church | 295 |
1. | A Synopsis of the Catechism's Teaching on the Christian Moral Life | 296 |
2. | Essential Meaning of Christian Morality According to the Catechism | 298 |
A. | The Moral Life as an Endeavor on the Part of Human Persons to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Them to Be | 299 |
B. | Our Absolute Dependence Upon God to Enable Us to Become Fully the Beings He Wills Us to Be | 300 |
C. | The God-given Authority of the Church as Mother and Teacher | 300 |
D. | What We Must Do in Order to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Us to Be | 301 |
Notes for Appendix | 303 | |
Index | 305 |
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