Christian Ethics - Volume I: General Moral Theology

Christian Ethics - Volume I: General Moral Theology
Phụ đề:	Moral Theology in the light of Vatican II
Tác giả:	Karl H. Peschke
Ký hiệu tác giả:	PE-K
DDC:	241 - Thần học luân lý
Ngôn ngữ:	Anh
Tập - số:	1
Số cuốn:	1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số:	258SB0008035
Nhà xuất bản:	C. GOODLIFFE NEALE, Alcester
Năm xuất bản:	1993
Khổ sách:	22
Số trang:	381
Kho sách:	Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng:	Hiện có

Abbreviations	viii
Preface	1
Introduction	3
Chapter 1: NATURE OF MORALITY AND ITS ULTIMATE END	13
A. Responsive character of Christian morality	14
l. Holy Scripture	14
2. Liturgy	17
3. Christian theology	18
B. The ultimate purpose of the moral demand	21
I. Temporal happiness and welfare as ultimate purpose: eudaemonism, utilitarianism	23
II. Ethics of self-perfection and temporal progress	29
III. Morality for its own sake	32
l. Kantian ethics	32
2. Ethics of values	36
IV. God's glory and kingdom as the ultimate purpose: theonomous ethics	39
1. Teaching of Holy Scripture	40
2. Theological reflection	44
V. Salvation and the moral demand	48
1. Role of salvation in Holy Scripture	48
2. Role of salvation in theologic11lthought	50
C. The categorical character of the moral demand	53
D. Openness to God's guidance and discernment of spirits	57
Chapter II: NATURE OF THE MORAL LAW	64
A. Notion of moral law	65
1. Concept of moral law	65
2. Natural, revealed and human law	66
B. Law of God in Holy Scripture	68
I. Law of the Old Testament	68
II. Moral law in the New Testament	75
III. Distinctiveness of Christian ethics	84
IV. Moral autonomy and theonomous ethics	92
C. Natural moral law	95
I. Concept of natural law	97
l. The traditional concept	97
2. The theological controversy over natural law	101
3. Revised concept of natural law	105
II. Properties of natural law	106
1. Universality of natural law	106
a) Extent of the universal knowledge of natural law	106
b) Uncertainties in the teaching of the Church	109
2. Immutability and dynamics	111
3. Indispensability of natural law	113
4. Personal and situational character	115
III. Existence and ultimate basis of natural law	117
I. Natural law as reflection of God's eternal decrees	118
2. Natural law as based on the order of being	120
a) General implication of the axiom "action follows being"	120
b) Application to human activity	121
c) Hume's critique and an answer to it	123
3. Deontological and teleological foundation of moral norms	126
D. Human law	135
I. Notion and necessity of human law	135
1. Concept and properties of human law	135
2. Attitude of the New Testament to human law	138
3. Necessity of human law according to reason	140
II. Object and substantive justice of the law	141
III. Moral obligation of the law	146
IV. Procedural justice and epikeia	149
1. Procedural justice	149
2. Epikeia	152
V. Cessation of obligation and of the law itself	155
Chapter III: CONSCIENCE	158
A. Concept and nature of Conscience	159
I. Holy Scripture on conscience	159
II. Conscience as moral faculty	163
1. Views outside of Christian theology	163
2. Concept of conscience in theology	166
3. Conscience as subject to being	170
III. Conscience as practical moral judgment	172
1. Concept of the dictate of conscience	172
2. Division of conscience	174
IV. Stages in the developtment of conscience	175
B. The binding force of conscience	179
I. The certain conscience	179
II. The vincibly erroneous and lax conscience	183
III. The perplexed conscience	185
IV. The doubtful conscience	186
C. Formation of a certain conscience by means of reflex principles	188
I. Nature and varieties of reflex principles	188
II. The systems of probability	190
D. Freedom and commitment of conscience	195
1. The right to freedom of conscience	195
2. Conscience and the civil law	197
3. Conscience and the teaching office of the Church	201
4. Duty to form one's conscience	205
Chapter IV: COMMUNAL ROOTS OF MORAL IDENTITY AND FUNDAMENTAL OPTION	208
A. Fonnative principles of moral identity	208
I. The Bible as formative principle of the moral life	210
1. The Bible as prime source of Christian identity	210
2. Concrete shape of biblical.moral identity	212
II. The faith community as matrix of moral identity	216
B. Character formation	220
C. Basic intention and fundamental option	223
Chapter V: REALIZATION OF THE MORAL VALUE IN HUMAN ACTS	228
A. Concept and nature of the human act	228
I. Concept of the human act	228
II. Divisions of the voluntary act and effect	230
III. The presupposition of freedom	232
1. Freedom of will in Holy Scripture	233
2. Theological reflection	236
B. Obstacles to humari acts	238
I. Impairments of required knowledge	238
1. lgnorance	239
2. Error	241
3. Inattention	242
II. Impairments of free consent	242
1. Passion	242
2. Fear and social pressure	244
3. Violence	247
4. Dispositions and habits	248
C. Sources defining the morality of human acts	250
I. The object	251
II. The circumstances	254
III. The end intended by the agent	256
IV. Moral significance of the external act	260
D. Preference rules and problems of the lesser evil	261
I. Preference rule	262
II. Imputability of indirectly willed effects	265
1. Imputability of indirectly willed effects in general	265
2. The principle of double effect	267
3. Problems and controversies	269
III. Cooperation in the wrong deeds of others	277
IV. The ethical compromise	281
Chapter VI: THE MORALLY BAD ACTION: SIN	285
A. Nature of sin	287
I. Biblical delineation of sin	288
II. Threefold dimension of sin	291
1. The personal dimension of sin	292
2. The social dimension of sin	293
3. Sin as rejection of God	295
III. Mortal, grave and venial sin	296
1. Different gradations of sins	296
2. Mortal and venial sin defined	299
3. Criteria for the objective gravity of sins	302
B. Division of sins	305
I. Different kinds of internal sins	305
II. Sins of omission and commission	308
III. The capital sins	309
C. Sources of sin	310
I. Temptation	310
II. Seduction and scandal	314
1. Seduction	314
2. Active and passive scandal	315
3. Moral evaluation of scandal	318
III. Impact of a sinfully distorted world	320
1. Solidarity in evil according to Holy Scripture	320
2. Man's situation a sinfully distorted world	322
Chapter VII: CONVERSION, VIRTUEANDPERFECTION IN HOLINESS	326
A. Conversion	327
I. Man's need for conversion	327
1. The call to conversion in Holy Scripture	327
2. Universality of conversion and its continuous need	330
II. Nature of conversion	331
1. Repentance of past evil deeds	331
2. Return to God's salvific will	333
3. Conversion as social event	334
III. Conditions of conversion	335
1. Admission of sin and guilt	335
2. Openness to the gift of grace	336
3. Spirit and fruits of repentance	337
IV. Sacramental enactment of conversion	339
B. Virtue	341
I. Nature of Virtue	343
II. The prime virtue and the many virtues	345
III. Fundamental requirements of virtue	347
1. Moral knowledge and prudence	347
2. Love of moral value	349
3. Dominion over passions	350
C. The universal call to perfection and holiness	351
I. Defective ideals	353
II. The call to perfection in Holy Scripture	355
III. Essence and universality of the call to perfection	360
l. Nature of perfection	360
2. University of the call to perfection	362
IV. Pathways to holiness	364
Bibliography	369
Index	373

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