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The ethos of the Christian heart : reading Veritatis splendor /

"​​One of the most studied and critiqued documents of the papal magisterium is largely spoken of with regards to moral theology and the refutation of modern error. Yet Adrian Reimers points out that, as affirmed by this encyclical, the moral life is itself a realm of love and freedom, a place o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reimers, Adrian J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2025]
Subjects:
John Paul > II, > Pope, > 1920-2005 > Criticism and interpretation.
Catholic Church. > Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II). > Veritatis splendor.
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Encyclicals, Papal.
Christian ethics.
Christian ethics > Papal documents.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Philosophy and religion.
Philosophy, Modern.
Église catholique > Doctrines.
Encycliques.
papal encyclicals.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The problem of dissent
  • The project of this work
  • The Good: A brief overview of the vanishing good
  • The meaning of life: Interiority
  • Goods and kinds of goodness: Having ; Being
  • The truth about good and evil
  • The image of God
  • The metaphysics of reason
  • Communion and the image of God
  • The rich young man
  • The love of God
  • Love of neighbor
  • Summary and conclusion
  • Enlightenment Perspectives: The modern turn
  • Modern perspectives on choosing between good and evil: The case of Hume
  • Immanuel Kant
  • J. S. Mill
  • Max Scheler
  • The Human Act: Karol Wojtyla [Pope John Paul II] on the human act: The problem of consciousness ; Consciousness and the will ; Consciousness and the self ; Consciousness and freedom
  • Efficacy
  • Good and bad acts: Evil
  • Conscience: Tradition and the Council: St. Thomas Aquinas on conscience ; Vatican II and subsequent controversies
  • John Paul II: Conscience and the heart: Conscience, truth, and duty ; Experience of guilty conscience ; Ethos and the "heart" ; Conscience and the Moral Law ; The essence of conscience
  • And hence ...
  • Natural Law: The term, "natural law"
  • Euthyphro's problem
  • Locke's natural law and Mill's utilitarianism
  • Utilitarianism and consequentialism: The result ; The subjectivism of utilitarianism
  • God and morality
  • John Paul II's position.
  • Freedom: Freedom of alternatives and determinism
  • Freedom and the community: Locke and Mill ; Marxism
  • Conditions on freedom: An historical example
  • Existential freedom
  • Fundamental option
  • Freedom in Karol Wojtyla's [Pope John Paul II's] writings
  • Wojtyla characterizes fundamental freedom of choice
  • Spirituality and transcendence
  • Conditions on freedom
  • Virtue and the acquisition of freedom
  • Intrinsece Malum: Object of the act
  • The teleology of acts
  • The "beginning" and theology of the body
  • Responsibility for reason
  • The Holy Spirit
  • God and the Meaning of Life: The full meaning of life
  • Declining Christ's invitation and the demands of discipleship
  • The interior life
  • What a life means
  • Conclusion: Technological revolution
  • Sin and the presence of evil
  • Bibliography.