Moral Theology from a European Perspective. Emerging Methodologies
Attentive to tradition and learning from Asia
Keywords:
Moral Theology, European Perspective, MethodologiesAbstract
What is emerging from Europe in moral theology today can only be
understood in the light of the discipline sixty years ago, on the eve of
the Second Vatican Council. A narrative of those years, in broad
strokes, reveals an analytic point of great importance. From a standard
and generally accepted univocal methodology sixty years ago in
Europe, we now have a plurality of methodologies. The scope of this
article is to tell that narrative, in general terms: only when we
understand that European moral theologians have abandoned a once
dominant methodology for a plurality of approaches can we begin to
see what we, here in Europe, can learn from Asia.
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