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A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century - From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences (Paperback)
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A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century - From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences (Paperback)
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This is an historical survey of 20th Century Roman Catholic
Theological Ethics (also known as moral theology). The thesis is
that only through historical investigation can we really understand
how the most conservative and negative field in Catholic theology
at the beginning of the 20th could become by the end of the 20th
century the most innovative one. The 20th century begins with moral
manuals being translated into the vernacular. After examining the
manuals of Thomas Slater and Henry Davis, Keenan then turns to
three works and a crowning synthesis of innovation all developed
before, during and soon after the Second World War. The first by
Odon Lottin asks whether moral theology is adequately historical;
Fritz Tillmann asks whether it's adequately biblical; and Gerard
Gilleman, whether it's adequately spiritual. Bernard Haering
integrates these contributions into his Law of Christ. Of course,
people like Gerald Kelly and John Ford in the US are like a few
moralists elsewhere, classical gate keepers, censoring innovation.
But with Humanae vitae, and successive encyclicals, bishops and
popes reject the direction of moral theologians. At the same time,
moral theologians, like Josef Fuchs, ask whether the locus of moral
truth is in continuous, universal teachings of the magisterium or
in the moral judgment of the informed conscience. In their move
toward a deeper appreciation of their field as forming consciences,
they turn more deeply to local experience where they continue their
work of innovation. Each continent subsequently gives rise to their
own respondents: In Europe they speak of autonomy and personalism;
in Latin America, liberation theology; in North America, Feminism
and Black Catholic theology; and, in Asia and Africa a deep
post-colonial interculturatism. At the end I assert that in its
nature, theological ethics is historical and innovative, seeking
moral truth for the conscience by looking to speak crossculturally.
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