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The sources of Christian ethics / Servais Pinckaers ; translated from the third edition by Sr. Mary Thomas Noble.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Washington, D.C, The Catholic University of America Press, ©1995Description: xxi, 489 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813208343
  • 9780813208343
  • 0813208181
  • 9780813208183
  • 0813208173
  • 9780813208176
Uniform titles:
  • Sources de la morale chrétienne. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sources of Christian ethics.DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 241 P647S 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1249 .P5613 1995
Contents:
What is Christian ethics? the search for a definition -- Overview of Christian ethics: some basic questions -- The human aspect of Christian ethics -- Christian ethics: its distinctive character -- Christian ethics according to St. Paul -- The Sermon on the Mount and Christian ethics -- Is St. Thomas's moral teaching Christian? -- The Patristic period -- Moral theology in the period of high scholasticism -- Moral theology in the late Middle Ages: the Nominalist revolution -- Moral theology in the modern era of the manuals -- Catholic moral theology and Protestant ethics -- Moral theology today -- Freedom of indifference: the origin of obligational moral theory -- Freedom for excellence -- Human freedom according to St. Thomas Aquinas -- Natural inclinations at the source of freedom and morality.
Subject: Recognized worldwide as one of the most important books in the field of moral theology, this book returns Christian ethics to its sources: the Gospel and the Holy Spirit.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-477) and index.

What is Christian ethics? the search for a definition -- Overview of Christian ethics: some basic questions -- The human aspect of Christian ethics -- Christian ethics: its distinctive character -- Christian ethics according to St. Paul -- The Sermon on the Mount and Christian ethics -- Is St. Thomas's moral teaching Christian? -- The Patristic period -- Moral theology in the period of high scholasticism -- Moral theology in the late Middle Ages: the Nominalist revolution -- Moral theology in the modern era of the manuals -- Catholic moral theology and Protestant ethics -- Moral theology today -- Freedom of indifference: the origin of obligational moral theory -- Freedom for excellence -- Human freedom according to St. Thomas Aquinas -- Natural inclinations at the source of freedom and morality.

Recognized worldwide as one of the most important books in the field of moral theology, this book returns Christian ethics to its sources: the Gospel and the Holy Spirit.

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