Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 January 2018
- ISBN 9780198815129
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 232x156x14 mm
- Weight 412 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study in Catholic moral theology, this work argues for a focus not on behaviour but on intent, and draws on thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to the Second Vatican Council.
MoreLong description:
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 behavioural 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.
Since Selling views the text as a beginning of conversation, its contribution will prove to be timeless.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Crisis in Ethical Method
A Theology for Theological Ethics'
Thomas Aquinas: The First Christian Ethicist?
From Trent to Vatican II
The Fundamental Norm of Morality and the Human Person
Seeking the End: A Fresh Look at the Concept of Virtue
Framing Ethical Behaviour
Toward a Convergence of Method
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
