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Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of visions of
attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet it also faces
criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society.
Engaging with ideas from business, marketing, and economics, The
Vice of Luxury takes on the challenging task of naming how much is
too much in today's consumer-oriented society. David Cloutier's
critique goes to the heart of a fundamental contradiction. Though
overconsumption and materialism make us uneasy, they also seem
inevitable in advanced economies. Current studies of economic
ethics focus on the structural problems of poverty, of
international trade, of workers' rights -- but rarely, if ever, do
such studies speak directly to the excesses of the wealthy,
including the middle classes of advanced economies. Cloutier
proposes a new approach to economic ethics that focuses attention
on our everyday economic choices. He shows why luxury is a problem,
explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today,
and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian
moral convictions.
Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought provides a new and
wide-ranging account of these two ostensibly divergent fields.
Focusing on the agency of the business person and the interests of
firms, this volume outlines fundamental issues confronting moral
leaders and corporations committed to responsible business
practices.
The growing shift in Catholic moral theology from reflecting on
rules alone to focusing on the identity and formation of persons as
moral agents prompts a further question: What impact do recent
changes in the identity and formation of Catholic moral theologians
themselves have on how that discipline is practiced? Young Catholic
moral theologians experience a sharply different professional
formation and a changed location of ongoing professional life than
prior generations of moral theologians. How do these differences
influence the field of moral theology as a whole? New Wine, New
Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic
Moral Theology addresses these questions and more by offering a
snapshot of how a new generation of Catholic moral theologians
understands not only topics in the field, but the effects of their
own identity and formation on their treatment of those topics. The
distinctive contribution of this volume is the interweaving of
three key concerns, all of which arise out of a critical
self-reflection on the task of moral theology today: the character
and adequacy of training and ongoing formation in the field of
Catholic moral theology, the purpose and nature of teaching
Catholic moral theology, and the fittingness of methodological
debates with regard to the needs of the Christian life. Each essay
makes a contribution to its specific area of interest-ranging from
economic ethics, to Patristic rhetoric, to the nature and
development of practical reasoning-while probing what exactly young
Catholic moral theologians are doing, and how they can do what they
do better.
During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called 'the green pope'
because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements,
and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay,
ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along
with a presentation and a homily by bishops, Environmental Justice
and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision
for the Catholic Church in the United States explores four key
areas in connection with Benedict XVI's teachings: human and
natural ecology/human life and dignity; solidarity, justice,
poverty and the common good; sacramentality of creation; and our
Catholic faith in action. The product of mutual collaboration by
bishops, scholars and staff, this anthology provides the most
thorough treatment of Benedict XVI's contributions to ecological
teaching and offers fruitful directions for advancing concern among
Catholics in the United States about ongoing threats to the
integrity of Earth.
Christian ethics has addressed moral agency and culture from the
start, and Christian social ethics increasingly acknowledges the
power of social structures. However, neither has made sufficient
use of the discipline that specializes in understanding structures
and culture: sociology. In Moral Agency within Social Structures
and Culture, editor and contributor Daniel K. Finn proposes a
field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christian
ethics into conversation with modern discourses on human agency and
social transformation. Catholic social teaching mischaracterizes
social evil as being little more than the sum of individual
choices, remedied through individual conversion. Liberation
theology points to the power of social structures but without
specifying how structures affect moral agency. Critical realist
sociology provides a solution to both shortcomings. This collection
shows how sociological insights can deepen and extend Catholic
social thought by enabling ethicists to analyze more precisely how
structures and culture impact human decisions. The book
demonstrates how this sociological framework has applications for
the study of the ecological crisis, economic life, and virtue
ethics. Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture is a
valuable tool for Christian ethicists who seek systemic change in
accord with the Gospel.
Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought provides a new and
wide-ranging account of these two ostensibly divergent fields.
Focusing on the agency of the business person and the interests of
firms, this volume outlines fundamental issues confronting moral
leaders and corporations committed to responsible business
practices.
Christian ethics has addressed moral agency and culture from the
start, and Christian social ethics increasingly acknowledges the
power of social structures. However, neither has made sufficient
use of the discipline that specializes in understanding structures
and culture: sociology. In Moral Agency within Social Structures
and Culture, editor and contributor Daniel K. Finn proposes a
field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christian
ethics into conversation with modern discourses on human agency and
social transformation. Catholic social teaching mischaracterizes
social evil as being little more than the sum of individual
choices, remedied through individual conversion. Liberation
theology points to the power of social structures but without
specifying how structures affect moral agency. Critical realist
sociology provides a solution to both shortcomings. This collection
shows how sociological insights can deepen and extend Catholic
social thought by enabling ethicists to analyze more precisely how
structures and culture impact human decisions. The book
demonstrates how this sociological framework has applications for
the study of the ecological crisis, economic life, and virtue
ethics. Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture is a
valuable tool for Christian ethicists who seek systemic change in
accord with the Gospel.
Description: SINCE 2002, THE SYMPOSIUM NEW WINE, NEW WINESKINS HAS
OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY for young Catholic moral theologians to
engage in shared work and conversation. Here, the fruits of these
labors are gathered into one collection, which represents the wide
scope of the future of Catholic sexual ethics. This volume offers
the rst collection of a new generation's approaches to Catholic
sexual ethics. The collection displays young scholars with diverse
views, yet whose work moves beyond the impasses that have beset the
eld. The volume offers original and engaging essays on a variety of
topics, from the hook-up culture and dating violence, to
cohabitation and homosexuality, to contraception and natural family
planning, to the promises and pitfalls of ""the theology of the
body."" The authors display a fresh engagement with these issues in
conversation with the Christian tradition and with contemporary
culture. David Cloutier provides an introduction that locates this
work within the past decades of Catholic scholarship, and
articulates new categories for future work. The essays also offer
practical insights and models that will interest pastors and lay
ministers, as well as scholars. Endorsements: ""In this excellent
collection of essays on sexuality and marriage, we see emerging
theological voices effectively move beyond the impasse of a
previous generation. These authors both acknowledge the deep in
uence of contemporary culture on Christian understandings of sex
and marriage, and critically respond with a surprisingly
sophisticated set of theological resources. Alternatively
fascinating and disconcerting, this collection has a real chance to
seriously engage a 'hooked up' and 'porni ed' undergraduate
culture. An excellent resource for teaching."" --JOHN BERKMAN,
Associate Professor of Moral Theology, Regis College, University of
Toronto ""Leaving and Coming Home is a breath of fresh air in
Catholic moral thinking about sexuality. The authors take the
warring personalisms of decades past and present and nest them in
the setting of 'home.' The resulting essays, suitable for use in
both undergraduate and graduate moral theology courses, offer
refreshing takes on hard questions."" --WILLIAM L. PORTIER, Mary
Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology, University of Dayton ""By
countering the trivialization, as well as overly glori ed accounts,
of sex and marriage, the authors of Leaving and Coming Home
convincingly argue that any Christian understanding of sexuality
and marriage must be incorporated into a theology of discipleship
and connected to the practices of the Christian life. Challenging
and engaging, each of the essays offers a liberating alternative to
contemporary notions of sex and marriage by demonstrating that the
fundamental purpose of both is to deepen our ability to love God
and neighbor."" --PAUL J. WADELL, Professor of Religious Studies,
St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin ""Leaving and Coming Home
offers wide-ranging treatments and fresh perspectives on issues in
sexual ethics, both new and old. The blend of voices from different
points on the theological spectrum is harmonized in a shared
attention to practices--understood not just as sociological
descriptions of human behaviors, but as productive of virtue and
vice within persons and communities. An excellent addition to
college or introductory graduate courses on marriage or sexual
ethics."" --JOHN S. GRABOWSKI, Associate Professor of Moral
Theology/Ethics, The School of Theology and Religious Studies, The
Catholic University of America About the Contributor(s): David
Cloutier is Associate Professor of Theology at Mount St. Mary's
University in Emmitsburg, MD. He is the author of Love, Reason, and
God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008), as
well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexual ethics and
moral theology.
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