Synopses & Reviews
This work is an investigation of the ongoing methodical reconstruction of Catholic moral theology. As such it is based on and honors the work of Norbert Rigali, S.J., one of the most important contributors to this reconstruction.The decisive break from the traditional manual approach to moral theology represented by Vatican II reoriented moral theology away from universal natural law morality based on the commandments to a morality based on specifically Christian sources. This reorientation, however, was not an either/or but a both/and proposition. Father Norbert Rigali, S.J. has been an inspiration and a challenge to moral theologians working toward reconstruction. This essays in this collection address four questions in the renewal movement: an investigation of normative methods, a clarification of sources, an investigation of the tension between natural law morality and Christian ethics and/or morality, and a combination of methodical insights of philosophy and traditional Christian sources in their investigation of biomedical ethical issues.
Description
Includes bibliographical references. "Bibliography of Norbert J. Rigali, S.J.": p. 275-279.
About the Author
Todd A. Salzman is an assistant professor of ethics in the Department of Theology at Creighton University.
Table of Contents
Normative methods in ethics: surveying the landscape of ethical pluralism / Richard M. Gula -- The fundamental polarity of moral discourse / Joseph A. Selling -- Natural law, acts, and persons / Bernard Hoose -- Purity of heart and the Christian moral life / Mark O'Keefe -- Spirituality and morality: what's the difference? / James F. Keenan -- God's gits and our moral lives / Edward Collins Vacek -- The ecclesial context of moral theology / Charles E. Curran -- The question of the uniqueness of Christian morality: an historical and critical analysis of the debate in Roman Catholic ethics / James J. Walter -- Specificity, Christian ethics, and levels of ethical inquiry / Todd A. Salzman -- The natural law and the specificity of Christian morality: a survey of recent work and an agenda for future research / Jean Porter -- Euthanasia: the practical and social significance of double effect / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Ethics and genetic research / Richard A. McCormick --