Personal Responsibility and Christian Morality

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ISBN: 9780878404056 | 0878404058
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Copyright: 6/1/1983

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In this volume, Fr. Fuchs has brought together 12 exceptionally important essays which consider various aspects of the relationship between Christian morality and human behavior. Among the subjects he discusses are the connections between moral theology and Christian experience, the absolute character of moral norms, and the importance of ethical reflection in shaping the future of the human race. Book jacket.

Preface
Christian Morality	p. 1
Moral Theology as Sacra Doctrina	p. 3
Theology as Understanding of Faith	p. 4
Theology as a Scientific Discipline	p. 5
Sacred Doctrine: Teacher and Student	p. 8
The Place of Sacred Doctrine among Other Academic Disciplines	p. 10
Moral Theology as Sacred Doctrine	p. 12
Moral Theology and Christian Existence	p. 19
Theological or Christian Existence as a Giving of Self	p. 20
Christian Existence and Concrete Morality	p. 24
Christian Existence and Love of Neighbor	p. 28
Vocation and Hope: Conciliar Orientations for a Christian Morality	p. 32
A New Man or a New Morality?	p. 33
A Human Morality or a New Morality?	p. 37
A Static or a Dynamic Interpretation of Man?	p. 42
Conscience or Objective Norms?	p. 44
Christian Normative Morality	p. 51
Is There a Distinctively Christian Morality?	p. 53
The "Christian Intentionality" of Christian Morality	p. 54
The Humanum of Christian Categorial Morality	p. 58
The Christianum of Christian Categorial Morality	p. 63
Christian and Humanistic Morality	p. 65
Is There a Normative Non-Christian Morality?	p. 69
Non-Christian Moralities	p. 70
Human Morality	p. 71
Christian Morality	p. 72
Non-Christian Morality, Human Morality, Christian Morality	p. 76
Autonomous Morality and Morality of Faith	p. 84
The Problem: "Human" and "Christian" Morality	p. 85
Ethical Experience	p. 89
The Rational Autonomy of the Christian	p. 95
The Question of Evidence	p. 103
Norm and Responsibility	p. 113
The Absoluteness of Behavioral Moral Norms	p. 115
Absolute: Universally Valid or Objective?	p. 117
The Absoluteness of Human Behavioral Norms	p. 129
The "Applicability" of Moral Norms	p. 133
Norms as Authentic Orientation	p. 142
The "Sin of the World" and Normative Morality	p. 153
The "Sin of the World" as the Concupiscence and Egoism of Mankind	p. 154
The "Sin of the World" as the Objectification of "Sin" in Human Society	p. 157
The "Sin of the World" as Concupiscence in the Acting Subject	p. 160
The "Sin of the World" and Moral Knowledge	p. 165
Synthetic Reflections: The "Sin of the World" in Its Relevance for the Establishing of Moral Norms	p. 166
Morality as the Shaping of the Future of Man	p. 176
Morality and Human Projects	p. 177
Criteria for Judging Human Projects	p. 179
The Value of Projects-Norms	p. 182
Epikeia Applied to Natural Law?	p. 185
Epikeia--The Virtue of Correctly Applying a Deficient Law	p. 186
Epikeia-Dispensation, Epikeia-Interpretaion	p. 189
"For the Most Part" and "According to the Mind of the Legislator"	p. 192
When Does Epikeia, Analogically Conceived, Become Effective?	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 197
A Summary: Clarifications of Some Currently Used Terms	p. 200
Christian Morality	p. 201
Will of God	p. 203
Christian Tradition--Magisterium of the Church	p. 206
Eternal Law	p. 208
Abstract-Universal	p. 210
Agere Sequitur Esse	p. 213
The !uestion Addressed to Conscience	p. 216
Conscience: Person as Freedom and as Source of Personal Decisions	p. 216
The Answer to the Questions of Man Who Is Challenged to a Particular Decision by Conscience	p. 218
A Question: Does Man's Conscience Which Has To Be Consulted Have Only a Subjective Normative Power in Comparison to Abstract Norms?	p. 222
Acknowledgments	p. 229
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