Has sin changed?

Fagan, Seán

Image Books **

<p>Recent decades have seen vast and rapid changes in almost every sphere of life. Many reflective adults find it difficult to adjust to these changes, especially when they have repercussions in such areas as morality and religious practice. Does Morality Change? examines the subject of morality and conscience, and discusses how the basic moral tenets do not change from one generation to the other, although interpretation of moral matters changes in light of new scientific and medical knowledge and social developments. In Does Morality Change? Sean Fagan reflects on the changes that have radically altered our world and examines how they affect our understanding of morality. He points out that although it is taken for granted that morality does not change - what is right must always be right, what is wrong is always wrong - this is an over-simplification. Morality is based on reality, but reality itself changes, and our understanding of reality likewise changes. He further maintains that the 'moral norms' formulated by tradition are based on 'reality' as experienced, understood, and interpreted by people, in light of their culture. The pastoral aim of this book is to free people, to help them find their way in the confusion, by explaining the phenomenon of change in today's world and Church, by listing the more significant changes in different areas, considering some of the implications and effects of these changes, and in the light of all this, to take a fresh look at some traditional topics in moral theology. Reflections along these lines may serve, in the words of St. Paul, 'for the building up of the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.' (Eph. 4:12-14).</p>

Does Morality Change?

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Liturgical Pr

Has Sin Changed?: A Book on Forgiveness

Michael Glazier

The First Lions of Rugby

Slattery Media Group

<p>Over forty years ago Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Humanae Vitae, which thousands of conscientious married Catholics experienced as a crucifying experience, an agony of conscience for which clergy could do nothing to help them. But from the sufferings of those forty years they learned to question church teaching and to trust their personal experience and their God-given intelligence to discover that there is no convincing reason to justify the ban on contraception. The central chapter of SeÃƒÂ¡n Fagan's book What Happened to Sin? explains how this has come about. It is a masterly analysis of this major problem under the heading How Sinful is Sex? which not only discusses in detail the specific question of contraception and responsible parenthood, but outlines an attractive and convincing theology of sex to counterbalance the church's appalling treatment of it down through the centuries. The book is basically a summary of fundamental moral theology, explaining the meaning of morality, the role of the Bible, the importance of conscience, the function of law, forms of guilt, God's forgiveness, the after-life, and person-centred responsibility.</p>

What Happened to Sin?

Christian Books & Bibles

Columba Press

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