Considering Veritatis Splendor
Title | Considering Veritatis Splendor PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780829810073 |
Complete text of Veritatis Splendor, plus commentary by distinguished European and American scholars. The single most important resource on one of the most significant religious statements of the end of the 20th century.
Veritatis Splendor
Title | Veritatis Splendor PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Allsopp |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781556127601 |
Pope John Paul II's encyclical Vertatis Splendor is an historic document: the first extensive analysis of the foundations of morality by a pope. It stands alongside the new catechism as a major statement about Christian morality, the role of reason in the moral life, and the vision of life for the disciple of Jesus.
Introduction to Moral Theology
Title | Introduction to Moral Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Romanus Cessario |
Publisher | Catholic University of America Press + ORM |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2010-03-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0813220378 |
The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this first book in the Catholic Moral Thought series has been widely recognized as an authoritative resource on such topics as moral theology and the good of the human person created in God’s image; natural law; principles of human action; determination of the moral good through objects, ends, and circumstances; and the virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes. The Catholic Moral Thought series is designed to provide students with a comprehensive presentation of both the principles of Christian conduct and the specific teachings and precepts for fulfilling the requirements of the Christian life. Soundly based in the teaching of the Church, the volumes set out the basic principles of Catholic moral thought and the application of those principles within areas of ethical concern that are of paramount importance today.
Emerson and Power
Title | Emerson and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lopez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780875801964 |
The Benedict Option
Title | The Benedict Option PDF eBook |
Author | Rod Dreher |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0735213313 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo–Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House may have bought a brief reprieve from the state’s assault, but it will not stop the West’s slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actually the way back—all the way to St. Benedict of Nursia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome’s fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new form of barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. The Benedict Option is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. It's for all mere Christians—Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox—who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church, can sustain believers in the dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.
Veritatis Splendor and the Renewal of Moral Theology
Title | Veritatis Splendor and the Renewal of Moral Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Joseph Sheed |
Publisher | Our Sunday Visitor |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Catholic Church |
ISBN | 9780879737399 |
Insights and reflections by ten internationally known scholars on what may be the single greatest encyclical of our era.
New Wine, New Wineskins
Title | New Wine, New Wineskins PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Mattison |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780742532465 |
The growing shift in Catholic moral theology from reflecting on rules alone to focusing on the identity and formation of persons as moral agents prompts a further question: What impact do recent changes in the identity and formation of Catholic moral theologians themselves have on how that discipline is practiced? Young Catholic moral theologians experience a sharply different professional formation and a changed location of ongoing professional life than prior generations of moral theologians. How do these differences influence the field of moral theology as a whole? New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology addresses these questions and more by offering a snapshot of how a new generation of Catholic moral theologians understands not only topics in the field, but the effects of their own identity and formation on their treatment of those topics. The distinctive contribution of this volume is the interweaving of three key concerns, all of which arise out of a critical self-reflection on the task of moral theology today: the character and adequacy of training and ongoing formation in the field of Catholic moral theology, the purpose and nature of teaching Catholic moral theology, and the fittingness of methodological debates with regard to the needs of the Christian life. Each essay makes a contribution to its specific area of interest-ranging from economic ethics, to Patristic rhetoric, to the nature and development of practical reasoning-while probing what exactly young Catholic moral theologians are doing, and how they can do what they do better.