The dialogue between tradition and history : essays on the foundations of Catholic moral theology /
The decades following the Second Vatican Council witnessed Catholic theology's break from classicism. Deductive, classical theology was replaced by an empirical, historically minded theology. The result was moral confusion and intellectual controversy whose effects are still felt by the Church....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Broomall, Pennsylvania :
National Catholic Bioethics Center,
[2022].
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| Summary: | The decades following the Second Vatican Council witnessed Catholic theology's break from classicism. Deductive, classical theology was replaced by an empirical, historically minded theology. The result was moral confusion and intellectual controversy whose effects are still felt by the Church. Benedict Ashely agreed that some revision in moral theology was necessary after Vatican II to formulate and integrate the mysteries of the Catholic faith. The question was how such teachings could be reformulated while preserving their substantive content. Ashley presents a method of theological reflection that challenges the subjectivity, relationality and language of historical mindedness with a tradition focusing on Scripture, the Magisterium, sound natural science and a considered relationship between subjectivity and objectivity. |
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| Physical Description: | 333 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780935372731 0935372733 |