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The critical calling : reflections on moral dilemmas since Vatican II / Richard A. McCormick ; foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Moral traditions seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, �2006.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 414 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781589014343
  • 1589014340
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical calling.DDC classification:
  • 241/.042 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1249 .M24 2006eb
NLM classification:
  • BJ 1249
Online resources:
Contents:
Moral theology since Vatican II: clarity or chaos? -- Dissent in the Church: loyalty or liability? -- Moral argument in Christian ethics -- The chill factor in contemporary moral theology -- Bishops as teachers, scholars as listeners -- L'Affaire Curran -- Pluralism in moral theology -- Catholic moral theology: is pluralism pathogenic -- Matters of free theological debate -- Fundamental freedom revisited -- Theology in the public forum -- The consistent ethic of life: is there a historical soft underbelly? -- Divorce, remarriage, and the sacraments -- "A clean heart create for me, O God." Impact questions on the artificial heart -- Genetic technology and our common future -- Sterilization: the dilemma of Catholic hospitals -- Homosexuality as a moral and pastoral problem -- AIDS: the shape of the ethical challenge -- Therapy or tampering? The ethics of reproductive technology and the development of doctrine -- If I had ten things to share with physicians -- Nutrition-hydration: the new euthanasia? -- The physician and teenage sexuality.
Summary: When Richard A. McCormick's The Critical Calling was first published, Andrew M. Greeley commented that in years to come scholars will look back on Father McCormick's work and say, 'This was a man who knew what he was talking about!' In this reissue, with a new foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill, both first-time readers and those opening the pages for a return visit with an honored friend will find Greeley's characterization remains valid. Father McCormick begins The Critical Calling with his personal affirmation of the work of Vatican II: I believe the Council was a work of the Spiritdesperately n.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moral theology since Vatican II: clarity or chaos? -- Dissent in the Church: loyalty or liability? -- Moral argument in Christian ethics -- The chill factor in contemporary moral theology -- Bishops as teachers, scholars as listeners -- L'Affaire Curran -- Pluralism in moral theology -- Catholic moral theology: is pluralism pathogenic -- Matters of free theological debate -- Fundamental freedom revisited -- Theology in the public forum -- The consistent ethic of life: is there a historical soft underbelly? -- Divorce, remarriage, and the sacraments -- "A clean heart create for me, O God." Impact questions on the artificial heart -- Genetic technology and our common future -- Sterilization: the dilemma of Catholic hospitals -- Homosexuality as a moral and pastoral problem -- AIDS: the shape of the ethical challenge -- Therapy or tampering? The ethics of reproductive technology and the development of doctrine -- If I had ten things to share with physicians -- Nutrition-hydration: the new euthanasia? -- The physician and teenage sexuality.

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When Richard A. McCormick's The Critical Calling was first published, Andrew M. Greeley commented that in years to come scholars will look back on Father McCormick's work and say, 'This was a man who knew what he was talking about!' In this reissue, with a new foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill, both first-time readers and those opening the pages for a return visit with an honored friend will find Greeley's characterization remains valid. Father McCormick begins The Critical Calling with his personal affirmation of the work of Vatican II: I believe the Council was a work of the Spiritdesperately n.

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