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Acting on Principles, the product of over thirty years of teaching,
gives a comprehensive overview of the Moral Theology of St. Thomas
Aquinas, placing it in dialogue with contemporary ethical theory
and developments in Catholic theology since the Second Vatican
Council. Suitable for students of ethics and moral theology, and
general readers seeking Christian guidance in the formation of
conscience and moral decision making, it presents the classical
Catholic ethical tradition in a clear and lively style.
Recent studies of medieval preaching have tended to focus on sermon
texts. This is the first scholarly study in English of preaching
and its social context in thirteenth-century Italy. Augustine
Thompson O.P., both an academic and a preacher, reconstructs the
"Great Devotion" of 1233 and analyzes its devotional, social,
political, and legal elements. He shows how the preachers of this
revival crafted an image of divine authority that supported their
intervention in factional disputes and facilitated their
arbitration in social and political conflicts. They exploited forms
from revived Roman Law and developing city statutes in order to
create flexible procedures for mediation, and ultimately were able
to revise communal ordinances to enshrine their message of social
harmony. This is a work of original scholarship, carefully
researched and lucidly written, which is a valuable contribution to
our understanding of religion and politics in the middle ages.
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