THE NOTION OF CHARITY IN VATICAN II

Real Consideration, Complicated Integration

Authors

  • Frédéric Trautmann

Keywords:

CHARITY, VATICAN II

Abstract

Charity is one of the themes of moral theology to have benefited from a renewal in the twentieth century thanks to research by moralists convinced of the need to return to biblical and patristic sources of morality. Over the centuries, the charity has seen many hazards including, for example, Jansenism, the quarrel about the pure love, formalism… On the eve of Vatican II, moralists operated a homecoming of morality to regain the prominent place of charity as a virtue which places the human being in connection with the Trinitarian life. This theological renewal, marked by theologians such as Fritz Tillmann, Gustave Thils, Yves de Montcheuil, Jacques Leclercq, Odon Lottin, Philippe Delhaye and Bernhard Häring, take some distance with the moral of manuals “centred on venial or mortal sins to confess, and written for confessors who were asked to situate themselves as judges.“

Author Biography

Frédéric Trautmann

Frédéric Trautmann has a PhD in Catholic Theology from the University of Strasbourg, France (2011). His research interests are Ethics and Charity, Virtues, Pedagogy of faith, Scouting and Christian life. He is treasurer of the French ESCT section and member of the Association of Theologians for the Study of Morals (ATEM). He published recently: “The Place of Charity in Ethics at the Second Vatican Council“ (New Scholars), Asian Horizons 6/1 (2012), 186-189; La notion de charité au concile Vatican II, Artège, Perpignan, 2012.

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2012-09-30

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Trautmann, F. (2012). THE NOTION OF CHARITY IN VATICAN II: Real Consideration, Complicated Integration. Asian Horizons, 6(03), 499–513. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2803