TY - GEN N2 - Using Thomas Kuhn's understanding of 'paradigms' within the history of science, this text examines how different models of natural law were presented by Catholic theologians in order to offer more compelling and coherent understandings of what the natural law is, and how Catholic theology uses it. The author explores whether the application of Kuhn's ideas to the heated Catholic debates over natural law might offer a more dispassionate way of understanding the development of a theological micro-tradition. AB - Using Thomas Kuhn's understanding of 'paradigms' within the history of science, this text examines how different models of natural law were presented by Catholic theologians in order to offer more compelling and coherent understandings of what the natural law is, and how Catholic theology uses it. The author explores whether the application of Kuhn's ideas to the heated Catholic debates over natural law might offer a more dispassionate way of understanding the development of a theological micro-tradition. T1 - The structure of theological revolutions :how the fight over birth control transformed American Catholicism / AU - Massa, Mark Stephen, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BX1406.3 ID - 844605 KW - Natural law KW - Birth control KW - Contraception SN - 9780190851439 TI - The structure of theological revolutions :how the fight over birth control transformed American Catholicism / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851408.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851408.001.0001 ER -