Humanae Vitae

"Presents a comprehensive review of Pope Paul VI'sencyclical on birth control...and the controversy which resulted. Smith discusses with great thoroughness: the beginnings of thedebate; the Christian understanding of marriage and procreation; ...the aftermath of Humanae Vitae and the 'revision' of naturallaw...".

Preface

ix

Beginnings of the Debate

1

(35)

A Brief History of the Church's Condemnation of Contraception

2

(5)

First Stirrings of Dissent

7

(4)

Papal Commission

11

(9)

The Minority Report and Natural Law

20

(3)

The Majority Rebuttal and Natural Law

23

(7)

The Final Report, The Schema

30

(6)

Christian Marriage

36

(32)

Christian Marriage

37

(5)

Marriage and Procreation

42

(12)

Conjugal Love and Personalist Values

54

(3)

Personalist Values of Marriage

57

(4)

Gaudium et Spes

61

(7)

Humanae Vitae: Preliminary Philosophical Considerations

68

(30)

Natural Law

69

(4)

The Purpose of the Sexual Organs

73

(10)

Contraception: An Intrinsic Evil

83

(2)

Unnatural Acts

85

(1)

Contraception is Artificial

86

(1)

The Physiological Argument against Contraception

87

(2)

The Principle of Totality

89

(4)

The Principle of Tolerating the Lesser Evil

93

(3)

The Principle of Double Effect

96

(2)

Natural Law Arguments against Contraception

98

(31)

The ``Intrinsic Worth of Human Life'' Argument against Contraception

99

(3)

The ``Special Act of Creation'' Argument

102

(3)

The ``Contraception is Contralife'' Argument

105

(2)

The ``Violation of the Unitive Meaning of the Conjugal Act'' Argument

107

(11)

The Difference between Contraception and Natural Family Planning

118

(11)

Some Theological Considerations

129

(32)

Scriptural Foundations for the Teaching of Humanae Vitae

129

(4)

Scriptural Foundations for Specific Natural Law Arguments

133

(3)

The Concept of Munus

136

(4)

The Interiority of Munus

140

(5)

An Application of Munus to Humanae Vitae

145

(3)

Humanae Vitae and Conscience

148

(7)

The Infallibility of Humanae Vitae

155

(6)

The Aftermath of Humanae Vitae and the ``Revision'' of Natural Law

161

(33)

Pope Paul VI and Humanae Vitae

164

(3)

Dissident Theological Response

167

(2)

Nature and Grace

169

(4)

A Monolithic System of Natural Law

173

(3)

Physicalism

176

(3)

A Classicist View of Nature versus Historical Consciousness

179

(3)

Evolutionary Historical Consciousness

182

(8)

Current Views of Curran and Haering

190

(4)

Premoral Evil and Other Variations on a Theme

194

(36)

The Revisionist Position

199

(5)

Are Exceptionless Norms and Tautologies?

204

(3)

Exceptionless Norms and Circumstances

207

(4)

The Principle of Double Effect

211

(4)

Aquinas's Analysis of Moral Action

215

(6)

A Comparison with the Revisionists

221

(9)

Self-Giving and Self-Mastery: John Paul II's Interpretation of Humanae Vitae

230

(36)

Self-Mastery

232

(6)

The Objective Criteria for the Wrongness of Contraception

238

(5)

The ``Original'' Condition of Man

243

(7)

The Gift of Self

250

(8)

Criticism of the Views of John Paul II

258

(2)

John Paul II's Continual Reaffirmation of Humanae Vitae

260

(6)

Afterword

266

(3)

Appendices

269

(102)

1. Translation of Humanae Vitae

269

(27)

2. Commentary on Humanae Vitae, with Summary of Footnote Citations

296

(41)

3. The Papal Interventions

337

(3)

4. A Critique of the Work of Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William May

340

(31)

Notes

371

(36)

Bibliography

407

(14)

Index

421

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