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Moral Demands and Personal Obligations

  • ISBN-13: 9780878405435
  • Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Josef Fuchs
  • Price: AUD $116.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/05/1994
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 232 pages Weight: 367g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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In this collection of recent essays (1988-92), all but one previously unavailable in English, noted theologian Josef Fuchs, SJ, examines key issues in normative morality. Identifying two strains, one based on natural law and a more situational one based on the Golden Rule, he explores the need for plurality in both individual and societal ethics, and the problem of universal versus only general validity. Central ideas that Fuchs develops are the concept of innovative morality as the individual's responsible search for God's will in personal situations; and, the significance of the conscience in the face of official statements by the church's magisterium. Among the topics he considers are marriage and sexuality; the beginning and end of life; and, international solidarity and social justice.
Introduction: The Difficult Golden Rule Part I. The Absolute in Moral Theology1. The Absolute in Moral Theology 2. Natural Law or Naturalistic Fallacy? 3. What Responsibility? 4. Structures of Sin 5. "Soul" and "Ensoulment" Part II. Historicity and the Moral Absolute6. Historicity and Moral Norm 7. Innovative Morality 8. Ethical Problems in the Christian Prayer of the Psalms 9. The Magisterium and Moral Theology Part III. Conscience and Moral Objectivity 10. Conscience and Conscientious Fidelity 11. "The One Who Hears You Hears Me": Episcopal Moral Directives 12. Ethical Self-Direction? 13. The Faithful Must Not Be Unsettled 14. Spiritual Foundations of the Structural Change in Western Society 15. Law and Grace: A Theme of Moral Theology
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