Beyond the New Theism

Politics & Social Sciences

Germain Grisez

Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

<p>Successfully and widely used in college ethics classes, this well-written text has in revision been made even clearer and more precise in its presentation as a result of extended classroom experience. Beyond The New Morality seeks to state clearly and simply a particular approach to ethics. The ethics here proposed seeks to put the concrete situation into the context of a whole person's life; it seeks to show how love requires a free response to human goods, a response generating responsibilities; it seeks to defend the person and the community of persons against theories and attitudes that would make of them mere objects, mere means.</p>

Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freeedom

Russell Shaw

Univ Of Notre Dame Press

Volume One of Germain Grisez's three-volume work is constructed primarily as a textbook in fundamental moral theology for students in Catholic seminaries. However, those already ordained to the priesthood, teachers of religion, parents concerned about the catechetical formation of their children, and others will find this book helpful as well. Some questions naturally arise regarding this monumental undertaking. Why, for example, should so extensive a project be carried out in one field - that of moral theology? And why should seminary students devote so much of their time to this one subject? The answer is that morality is the characteristic of human actions are not what is most fundamental in reality as a whole or in Christian life specifically - (far more basic is the reality itself and the work of God in creation and redemption) - nevertheless, God had chosen to create persons who can be like himself by acting intelligently and freely. And this is what morality is all about. This volume is only the first stage of a much larger project. In the present volume, the author considers only the fundamental part of moral theology: Christian moral principles. In subsequent volumes, he  takes up the specific responsibilities of Christians and clarifies their responsibilities in the light of these principles. The Second Volume, Living a Christian Life, deals with the responsibilities common all Christians. And the Third Volume, Difficult Moral Questions seeks to provide guidance, if not always answers, to some 200 intriguing problems that Christians grapple with each day.

Christian Moral Principles, Volume 1: The Way of the Lord Jesus

St Pauls / Alba House

This Second Volume in Germain Grisez's monumental study treats the specific moral responsibilities common to all or most lay people as well as those common to clerics and religious. Like Volume One's chapters, those of this work are divided into questions and answers based upon the conviction that the whole of the unique life to which God calls each Christian is his or her personal vocation. Each vocation embraces the whole one's life, not merely part of it, for God calls each believer - a calling not limited to the specific "vocations" to priesthood or religious life, marriage of the single state - to love and serve him with the whole of his or her heart, mind, soul, and strength. Vatican II adopted this inclusive understanding of vocation because it is eminently conducive to the integration of faith and daily life. Christian morality goes beyond the concept of laws imposed by God to an approach that promotes the good to be found in this world without going to the extreme of secular humanism which offers redemption without the cross. Insofar as Christians who try to fulfill their personal vocations are cooperating with Jesus, they are not left to their own resources. They are bolstered by God's grace. Hence, this volume deals with faith, hope, charity, justice, mercy and the other virtues, using them to illuminate and unify many specific norms of Christian morality.

Living a Christian Life, Volume 2: The Way of the Lord Jesus

Absolutism and Its Consequentialist Critics

'. . .a clear and sharp introduction which defines absolutism from both consequentialism and more moderate deontological views. . .' -Ethics

Bernard Williams

G. E. M. Anscombe

Immanuel, Kant

Various, Authors

Alan Donagan

Peter Geach

Stuart Hampshire

Alan Gerwith

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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