Reframing Catholic theological ethics [electronic resource] / Joseph A. Selling.
2016
BJ1249 .S395 2016eb
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Title
Reframing Catholic theological ethics [electronic resource] / Joseph A. Selling.
Author
Selling, Joseph A., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191821318 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 254 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198767121 doi
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BJ1249 .S395 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
241.042
Summary
"Traditionally, Catholic moral theology has been based upon an approach that over-emphasized the role of normative ethics and subsequently associated moral responsibility with following or disobeying moral rules. Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics offers an alternative ethical method which, without destroying any of the valuable insights of normative ethics, reorients the discipline to consider human motivation and intention before investigating behavioral options for realizing one's end. Evidence from the New Testament warrants the formation of a teleological method for theological ethics which is further elaborated in the approach taken by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, the insights of the latter were misinterpreted at the time of the counter-reformation. Joseph A. Selling's analysis of moral theological textbooks demonstrates the entrenchment of a normative method aimed at identifying sins in service to the practice of sacramental confession. With a firm basis in the teaching of Vatican II, the "human person integrally and adequately considered" provides the fundamental criterion for approaching ethical issues in the contemporary world. The perspective then turns to the crucial question of describing the ends or goals of ethical living by providing a fresh approach to the concept of virtue. Selling concludes with suggestions about how to combine normative ethics with this alternative method in theological ethics that begins with the actual, ethical orientation of the human person toward virtuous living." -- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
The Crisis in Ethical Method
A Theology of 'Theological Ethics'
Thomas Aquinas: The First Christian Ethicist?
From Trent to Vatican II
The Fundamental Norm of Morality and the Human Person
Seeking the End: A Fresh Look at the Concept of Virtue
Framing Ethical Behavior
Towards a Consensus of Argument.
A Theology of 'Theological Ethics'
Thomas Aquinas: The First Christian Ethicist?
From Trent to Vatican II
The Fundamental Norm of Morality and the Human Person
Seeking the End: A Fresh Look at the Concept of Virtue
Framing Ethical Behavior
Towards a Consensus of Argument.