Examines and evaluates the contributions that Charles E Curran has made to the field of Catholic moral theology over the years. This title assesses the development of specific topics in contemporary moral theology to which Curran has made his mark, particularly in fundamental ethics, sexual and medical ethics, and social and political ethics.
Examines and evaluates the contributions that Charles E Curran has made to the field of Catholic moral theology over the years. This title assesses the development of specific topics in contemporary moral theology to which Curran has made his mark, particularly in fundamental ethics, sexual and medical ethics, and social and political ethics.
Although Blaise Pascal's Penses have occupied a uniquely privileged niche in the literary canon in France for over three centuries, they had long slumbered in America. It is just in the last thirty years that critical theorists in this country have been discovering in them texts rich in modernist and post-modernist readings. Still, critics here ......
An analysis and evaluation of the monumental influence of H Richard Niebuhr. In a comprehensive investigation of the work of four contemporary ethicists, important in their own right, Paul Ramsey, Stanley Hauerwas, James Gustafson, and Kathryn Tanner, it explores how the legacy of Niebuhr has made an impact on their thought and work.
Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest for religious experience. "Healing a Broken World" places spirituality and contemplative experience in relation to today's most-pressing problems.
In the nineteenth century, most people assumed that the "modern spirit" and Catholicism, the great "religion of authority," were irreconcilably opposed. However, some tried to combine the two in a reformed and modernized Catholicism. These efforts, and the reaction of the institutional Church against them, precipitated the Modernist Crisis. ......
Does New Testament theology rightly deal with the documents of the New Testament or with something outside the text, such as the unfolding of early Christian religion, the events of salvation history, the historical Jesus in particular, or an understanding of human existence? Is New Testament theology a strictly historical project, a dialectical ......
An anthology that addresses various aspects of Thomas Aquinas' understanding of morality and comment on his legacy. This title introduces readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas' ethics.
Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. This title begins its exploration of discerning moral limits to modern high-technology medicine with a consensus statement born of the conversations among the contributors.
