How is moral theology related to pastoral theology? In this first English translation of "Living the Truth", Klaus Demmer answers this question by offering a complete theory of action. Its crucial element is truthfulness, which Demmer claims is a basic attitude that must be translated concretely into our individual decisions. Demmer demonstrates that the demand for truthfulness offers a critical corrective to the usual praxis whereby ethical norms are formulated. This has significant consequences for every area of ethical directives, including questions about celibacy and partnerships. Demmer moves away from the act-centered morality that dominates the neo-Scholastic manuals of moral theology. His concern is to show how our actions embody and carry out a more original anthropological project. Not only does this anthropological project condition our insights into goods and values, it provides the criteria by which our actions are judged morally. This book will be welcomed by all who are looking for ethical norms, and by all whose task it is to formulate such norms.
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How is moral theology related to pastoral theology? This title answers this question by offering a theory of action. It demonstrates that the demand for truthfulness offers a critical corrective to the usual praxis whereby ethical norms are formulated.
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Foreword Introduction Chapter OneThe Existential-Historical Form of ThoughtThe Theological-Anthropological Form of ThoughtGod's Action and Human Action Chapter TwoPerson and PersonalityStanding Firm in the TruthMoral Theology-A School of Truthfulness Chapter ThreeTruthfulness as the Basic Attitude of the Ethical PersonalityUntruthfulness as a Source of Personal DisintegrationThe Principle Features of a Metaphysics of Ethical Action Conclusion
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In understanding Demmer better, we may also better understand ourselves and our horizons. -from the foreword by James F. Keenan, SJ In this book, English-speaking moral theologians for the first time have access to the very influential hermeneutical ethical method of one of Europe's foremost moral theologians... a veritable mind opener. -Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University
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Klaus Demmer's Living the Truth is the signature work of one of the most influential Catholic moral theologians of the last fifty years. His central concern with freedom, truthfulness, and the 'ethical praxis' of Christian life will enrich English-speaking moral theology as it has already shaped the European. This carefully argued analysis of moral agency ought to be read by every moral theologian.
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Klaus Demmer's Living the Truth is the signature work of one of the most influential Catholic moral theologians of the last fifty years. His central concern with freedom, truthfulness, and the 'ethical praxis' of Christian life will enrich English-speaking moral theology as it has already shaped the European. This carefully argued analysis of moral agency ought to be read by every moral theologian. -- Stephen J. Pope, Boston College In this book, English-speaking moral theologians for the first time have access to the very influential hermeneutical ethical method of one of Europe's foremost moral theologians... a veritable mind opener. -- Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University
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In understanding Demmer better, we may also better understand ourselves and our horizons.

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ISBN
9781589016972
Publisert
2010-06-14
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Vendor
Georgetown University Press
Vekt
249 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Klaus Demmer, MSC is a member of the Order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. From 1970 to 2003 he was a professor of moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has published over twenty-five books on moral theology and is considered the foremost European moral theologian of his generation.