DECISIONS OF CONSCIENCE AS A CATHOLIC
Keywords:
Conscience, Lumen Gentium, Call to Holiness, Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Theology, Amoris Laetitia, Methodology, Decision-MakingAbstract
This article concentrates on one aspect of the broad theology of conscience: the dignity of the act-decision in conscience. The problem is introduced, and then set within the theological parameters suggested by the author’s understanding of Lumen Gentium (1) and Gaudium et Spes (2). Application to moral theology follows each section. The implications for the methodology of moral theology are presented in section (3) with a brief conclusion in (4).
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