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A Church That Can and Cannot Change - The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching (Paperback, New edition)
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A Church That Can and Cannot Change - The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Erasmus Institute Books
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Using concrete examples, John T. Noonan, Jr., demonstrates that the
moral teaching of the Catholic Church has changed and continues to
change without abandoning its foundational commitment to the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Specifically, Noonan looks at the profound changes
that have occurred over the centuries in Catholic moral teaching on
freedom of conscience, lending for a profit, and slavery. He also
offers a close examination of the change now in progress concerning
divorce. In these changes Noonan perceives the Catholic Church to
be a vigorous, living organism answering new questions with new
answers, and enlarging the capacity of believers to learn through
experience and empathy what love demands. He contends that the
impetus to change comes from a variety of sources, including
prayer, meditation on Scripture, new theological insights and
analyses, the evolution of human institutions, and the examples and
instruction given by persons of good will. Noonan also states that
the Church cannot change its commitment to preaching the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. Given this absolute, how can the moral teaching of
the Church change? Noonan finds this question unanswerable when
asked in the abstract. But in the context of the specific facts and
events he discusses in this book, an answer becomes clear. As our
capacity to grasp the Gospel grows, so too, our understanding and
compassion, which give life to the Gospel commandments of love,
grow.
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