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Foreword to the First Edition | 13 | |
Introduction to the Second Edition | 15 | |
Key to Abbreviations of Biblical Books | 21 | |
Chapter 1 | Moral Theology: Its Nature, Purpose, and Biblical Foundation | 23 |
The Moral Life--An Introductory Description | 23 | |
The Nature, Purpose, and Renewal of Moral Theology | 23 | |
1. | Who We Are and Who We Are Meant to Be in the Light of Faith | 23 |
2. | Theology and Moral Theology | 26 |
3. | The Function and Purpose of Moral Theology | 26 |
4. | The Renewal of Moral Theology | 27 |
Moral Theology and Holy Scripture | 31 | |
Conclusion | 37 | |
Notes for Chapter 1 | 37 | |
Chapter 2 | Human Dignity, Free Human Action, Virtue, and Conscience | 41 |
1. | Three Kinds of Human Dignity | 41 |
2. | Free Choice | 44 |
3. | The Significance of Human Action and the Meaning of Character | 47 |
4. | Virtue and Our Moral Life | 48 |
A. | Grisez on Virtue | 52 |
B. | St. Thomas Aquinas on Virtue | 53 |
C. | Virtue-based Ethics and Principles-based Ethics | 56 |
5. | Conscience and Our Moral Life | 57 |
Notes for Chapter 2 | 65 | |
Chapter 3 | The Natural Law and Moral Life | 71 |
Introduction | 71 | |
Natural Law in St. Thomas Aquinas | 71 | |
1. | The Basic Understanding of Law in the Summa Theologiae | 72 |
2. | Eternal Law | 73 |
3. | Natural Law: Its Central Meaning and Character | 73 |
4. | 'Primary' Precepts of Natural Law, Precepts 'Close to' Primary Precepts, and Other Precepts of Natural Law | 76 |
Excursus 1 | St. Thomas and Ulpian's Definition of Natural Law | 80 |
Excursus 2 | St. Thomas's Teaching on Natural Law in the Summa Contra Gentes | 84 |
Natural Law, Vatican Council II, and Pope John Paul II | 87 | |
1. | Natural Law and Vatican Council II | 87 |
2. | Natural Law in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II | 91 |
Natural Law in the Thought of Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Joseph Boyle | 93 | |
1. | The First Principle of Practical Reasoning and Its General Specifications | 94 |
2. | The First Principle of Morality and the Ideal of 'Integral Human Fulfillment' | 98 |
3. | The Specifications of the First Principle of Morality: The Modes of Responsibility | 102 |
4. | From Modes of Responsibility to Specific Moral Norms | 105 |
5. | Moral Priorities, Religion, and God | 106 |
6. | A Summary of the Natural Law Teaching of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 111 |
7. | An Assessment of the Thought of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle on Natural Law | 113 |
Natural Law in the Thought of Martin Rhonheimer | 119 | |
1. | Areas of Agreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 119 |
2. | Areas of Disagreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | 120 |
A. | Two Levels of Practical Reason: The Perceptive-Practical and the Descriptive-Reflexive | 120 |
B. | The Relationship Between Natural Law and Virtue | 122 |
C. | The Movement From the First or Common Principles of Natural Law to the 'Proximate' or 'Immediate' Conclusions | 123 |
Conclusion | 124 | |
Notes for Chapter 3 | 125 | |
Chapter 4 | Moral Absolutes | 141 |
Introduction | 141 | |
1. | The Revisionist Rejection of Moral Absolutes | 142 |
A. | Clarifying the Terminology | 145 |
B. | Arguments to Support the Revisionists' Denial of Moral Absolutes | 146 |
I. | The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | 146 |
II. | The Nature of a Human Act as a Totality | 148 |
III. | The Historicity of Human Existence | 150 |
2. | A Critique of Revisionist Denial of Moral Absolutes | 151 |
I. | The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | 152 |
II. | The Nature of a Human Act as a Whole or Totality | 156 |
III. | The Historicity of Human Existence and Moral Absolutes | 157 |
3. | A Defense of the Truth of Moral Absolutes | 159 |
Notes for Chapter 4 | 164 | |
Appendix I To Chapter Four: St. Thomas and Moral Absolutes | 170 | |
Notes for Appendix I to Chapter Four | 174 | |
Appendix II To Chapter Four: Pope John Paul II and Moral Absolutes | 176 | |
1. | The Moral Specification of Human Acts | 176 |
2. | The Criteria for Assessing the Moral Goodness or Badness of Human Acts | 177 |
3. | Moral Absolutes Protect the Inviolable Dignity of Human Persons and Point the Way Toward Fulfillment in Christ | 179 |
4. | The Incoherence of Ethical Theories Denying the Existence of Intrinsically Evil Acts and Absolute Moral Norms | 181 |
5. | The Infallibility of the Teaching Found in Veritatis Splendor | 182 |
Chapter 5 | Sin and the Moral Life | 185 |
1. | The Core Meaning of Sin | 185 |
A. | The Biblical Understanding of Sin | 185 |
B. | The Understanding of Sin in the Catholic Theological Tradition | 189 |
2. | The Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | 194 |
A. | Biblical and Magisterial Sources for This Distinction | 194 |
B. | The Classical Theological Understanding of This Distinction | 196 |
C. | Fundamental Option Theories and the Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | 198 |
D. | Fundamental Commitments, the Christian Way of Life, and Mortal Sin | 203 |
3. | The Role of Sin in Our Moral Lives: The Way of Sin to Death | 205 |
Notes for Chapter 5 | 207 | |
Chapter 6 | Christian Faith and Our Moral Life | 211 |
1. | The Existential Context of Our Moral Life | 211 |
2. | Jesus, the Foundation of the Christian Moral Life | 215 |
3. | Our Baptismal Commitment and Personal Vocation | 221 |
4. | Christian Love, the Principle of Our Life in Christ | 227 |
5. | The Beatitudes, Specifying the Requirements of Christian Love | 229 |
6. | The Question of Specific Christian Moral Norms | 233 |
7. | The Practicality of the Christian Moral Life | 236 |
Conclusion | 239 | |
Notes for Chapter 6 | 240 | |
Chapter 7 | The Church as Moral Teacher | 245 |
1. | Teaching and Pastoral Authority Within the Church | 245 |
2. | Specific Moral Norms Infallibly Taught by the Magisterium | 250 |
3. | What Response Should Be Given to Moral Teachings of the Magisterium Proposed Authoritatively But Not Infallibly? | 257 |
Notes for Chapter 7 | 265 | |
Chapter 8 | Christian Moral Life and John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor | 269 |
Detailed Exposition of Pope John Paul II's Teaching | 269 | |
The Introduction and an Overview of the Document | 269 | |
Chapter 1 | Christ and the Answer to the Question About Morality | 270 |
A. | Principal Ideas Set Forth in Chapter One | 271 |
I. | The Religious and Existential Significance of the Young Man's Question | 271 |
II. | The Sovereignty of God Over the Moral Order | 271 |
III. | The Essential Link Between Obedience to the Commandments and Eternal Life | 272 |
IV. | The 'Fulfillment' of the Law in Jesus; the Universal Call to Perfection | 272 |
V. | Moral Life, the Unity of the Church, and Revelation | 273 |
VI. | The More-than-human Authority of the Magisterium on Moral Questions | 273 |
B. | Dionigi Tettamanzi's Analysis of Chapter One | 274 |
I. | The Christocentric Meaning of Our Moral Life | 274 |
II. | The Ecclesial Dimension of Christian Moral Life | 275 |
Chapter 2 | The Church and the Discernment of Certain Tendencies in Present-day Moral Theology | 275 |
Introduction | 275 | |
I. | Freedom and the Law | 277 |
II. | Conscience and the Truth | 278 |
III. | Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior | 279 |
IV. | The Moral Act | 281 |
Chapter 3 | Moral Good for the Life of the Church and of the World | 283 |
Introduction | 283 | |
I. | The Relationship Between Human Freedom and the Truth | 284 |
II. | The Intimate and Inseparable Unity of Faith and Morality | 285 |
III. | The Relationship Between Respect for Personal Dignity and Refusal to Engage in Intrinsically Evil Acts | 285 |
IV. | The Absolute Need for God's Grace to Live a Morally Upright Life | 286 |
V. | The Service of Moral Theologians | 286 |
VI. | The Responsibility of Bishops | 286 |
Reactions to the Encyclical | 286 | |
The Selling-Jans Book: The Splendor of Accuracy | 287 | |
Richard McCormick's 'Some Early Reactions to Veritatis Splendor' and Martin Rhonheimer's Critique of McCormick | 288 | |
J. A. DiNoia's 'Veritatis Splendor: Moral Life as Transfigured Life' | 292 | |
Conclusion | 294 | |
Notes for Chapter 8 | 294 | |
Appendix | Christian Moral Life and the Catechism of the Catholic Church | 295 |
1. | A Synopsis of the Catechism's Teaching on the Christian Moral Life | 296 |
2. | Essential Meaning of Christian Morality According to the Catechism | 298 |
A. | The Moral Life as an Endeavor on the Part of Human Persons to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Them to Be | 299 |
B. | Our Absolute Dependence Upon God to Enable Us to Become Fully the Beings He Wills Us to Be | 300 |
C. | The God-given Authority of the Church as Mother and Teacher | 300 |
D. | What We Must Do in Order to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Us to Be | 301 |
Notes for Appendix | 303 | |
Index | 305 |
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