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The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States - Three Different Approaches (Paperback, New)
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The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States - Three Different Approaches (Paperback, New)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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Charles E. Curran presents the first in-depth analysis of the
origins of Catholic moral theology in the United States, focusing
on three significant figures in the late nineteenth century and
demonstrating that methodological pluralism and theological
diversity existed in the Church even then. Curran begins by tracing
the historical development of moral theology, especially as
presented in nineteenth-century manuals of moral theology, which
offered a legal model of morality including a heavy emphasis on
canon law. He then probes the different approaches and ideas of
three important writers: Aloysius Sabetti, a Jesuit who was a
typical, as well as the most influential, American manualist;
Thomas J. Bouquillon, first chair of moral theology at Catholic
University of America, a neoscholastic who criticized the manuals'
approach as narrow and incomplete for failing to address
principles, virtues, and the connection to systematic theology; and
clerical educator John B. Hogan, a casuist who developed a more
inductive and historically conscious methodology. Curran describes
how all three men dealt in different ways with the increasing role
of authoritative teachings in moral theology from the Vatican. He
also shows how they reflected their American context and the views
of their own time on women and sexuality. So little attention has
been paid to the development of moral theology in this country that
these authors are unknown to many scholars. Curran's book corrects
this oversight and proposes that the ferment revealed in their
writings offers important lessons for contemporary Catholic moral
theology.
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