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Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...
The Enchiridion (full title: Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum; "A handbook of symbols, definitions and declarations on matters of faith and morals"), usually translated as The Sources of Catholic Dogma, is a compendium of texts on Catholic theology and morality. This compendium was first published in ...
Richard A. McCormick SJ (1922 – February 12, 2000) was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States.He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory.
The most recent Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official summary of Church beliefs, devotes a large section to the Commandments, [7] which serve as the basis for Catholic social teaching. [4] According to the Catechism , the Church has given them a predominant place in teaching the faith since the fifth century. [ 7 ]
The contents of each volume of Moral Theology are listed broadly below: [3] Volume 1: Preface to the discourse (dissertatio prolegomena), on conscience, on laws, on the theological virtues, and on the first commandment; Volume 2: On commandments II, III, IV, V, VI, IX and VII, on justice and laws, and on restitution
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention (2000) Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition (2004 - second edition 2009) Paul and Virtue Ethics (co-authored with Daniel Harrington, 2010) Keenan, James F. & Mark McGreevy, eds. (2019). Street homelessness and Catholic theological ethics. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books.
Bernard Häring, presents a dialogical approach to Catholic moral theology in his trilogies The Law of Christ and Free and Faithful in Christ. In this approach, morality follows the pattern of faith necessitating a dialogue. This approach to morality rests on the person's conscience that acknowledges God as basis of value.
Father James Keenan, SJ, who studied under Fuchs, has claimed that Fuchs was one of those who provided the foundations for the moral theology of the Second Vatican Council. [1] Deacon James Keating, conversely, sees Fuchs's views as conflicting with key points of Pope John Paul II 's moral theology, and Keating stated in 2004 that he expected ...