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In calling for a renewal of moral theology, the Second Vatican
Council also charted a course for the Church's future. The Decree
on Priestly Formation specified the need for "livelier contact with
the mystery of Christ and the history of salvation" and called for
the discipline to be "more thoroughly nourished by scriptural
teaching." To this can be added the teaching of the Pastoral
Constitution on the Church, which found the mystery of the human
person disclosed in the person of Christ, and the Dogmatic
Constitution on the Church's recovery of the universal call to
holiness. The essays in this volume reflect an effort to explore
and respond to these hallmarks of renewal indicated by the Council
fathers. They therefore treat topics of theological anthropology,
the use of Scripture, and growth in holiness through the pursuit of
virtue, and also engage the increasingly important question of the
role of Scripture in moral theology. These sources of Catholic
moral teaching are brought to bear on a variety of pressing
contemporary issues: sexual difference, the relationship of sexual
expression to marital commitment, methods of family planning,
reproductive technologies, and public moral discussion of abortion.
Important figures of this postconciliar renewal-such as Alasdair
MacIntyre, Servais Pinckaers, OP, Benedict XVI, and particularly
John Paul II-figure prominently in this volume. Drawing on these
outstanding thinkers, these essays seek to follow the course of
renewal illumined by the Council so as, in the words of Optatum
totius, no. 16, "to shed light on the loftiness of the calling of
the faithful in Christ and the obligation that is theirs of bearing
fruit in charity for the life of the world."
It has always been understood that the central claim of
Christianity-that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God-is as much a
declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of
God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the
Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order,
intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of
revolution was followed by the age of science, and the effort to
shape the environment by technology was joined by an injunction to
shape societies and economies, and class conflicts became part of
world conflicts, the question about the human emerged as a crisis
in the meaning of being human. Yet the Catholic mind, preoccupied
like every other with the crisis, has conducted its reflection
within a tradition of Christian humanism, insisting on the mystery
and the tragedy, and still the dignity, of the human. This
collection of essays by thirteen Catholic scholars of philosophy,
theology, and political thought investigates a range of topics from
human sexuality and marriage to moral freedom and responsibility in
a pluralistic society, while demonstrating that the Gospel, passed
on in an ecclesial tradition, entered into through a sacramental
tradition, remains the one radical source of confidence in the
quest for human truth.
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