THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MORAL THEOLOGY AT VATICAN II
Keywords:
ACHIEVEMENT, MORAL THEOLOGY, VATICAN IIAbstract
In order to appreciate the achievement of moral theology at Vatican II we have to recognize that moral theologians in the first half of the twentieth century attempted to develop the foundations of a contemporary moral theology to replace the four centuries of the moral manuals. For reasons too numerous to explain here, these theologians wanted to revisit the roots of this “new“ moral theology in the Catholic tradition as it developed from the time of Christ until the dawn of sixteenth-century casuistry.1 That is, they wanted to revisit the tradition prior to the emergence of the moral manuals in their early forms as the summary of cases or the summa de casibus. Häring’s work represents the crowning achievement of these efforts. His work, I will argue here, guided moral theology to its achievements at Vatican II.
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