We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
VATICAN II AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICS.
- Authors
KEENAN, JAMES F.
- Abstract
This note, extended into an article to commemorate Vatican II, argues that any study of the council and theological ethics must attend to World War II's devastating impact on the field. The war moved European ethicists to repudiate the three centuries of moral manuals and propose a theological ethics based on conscience acting out of charity. In Latin America and Africa, "suffering" emerges as the overarching concern, while in the United States, the language of Catholic social teaching enters the fields of fundamental moral theology, sexual ethics, and bioethics. Looking back on the council today, ethicists see that the agenda of Gaudium et spes has become theirs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VATICAN Council (2nd : 1962-1965); RELIGIOUS ethics; WORLD War II; BIOETHICS; CATHOLIC Church
- Publication
Theological Studies, 2013, Vol 74, Issue 1, p162
- ISSN
0040-5639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/004056391307400109