An African Woman’s Perspective on the Role of the Moral Theologian in Church and Society
In this installment of our continuing series, we hear from Veronica J. Rop, a Ph.D. candidate at...
Read MorePosted by Christopher Vogt | Jul 29, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Role of Moral Theologian in Church and Society Series |
In this installment of our continuing series, we hear from Veronica J. Rop, a Ph.D. candidate at...
Read MorePosted by Christopher Vogt | Jul 25, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Role of Moral Theologian in Church and Society Series |
In this installment of our continuing series, we hear from Roman Globokar, Ph.D., of the...
Read MorePosted by Christopher Vogt | Jul 24, 2013 | Classic Posts, Current Events, Role of Moral Theologian in Church and Society Series |
Catholic moral theologians should come to understand their role in church and society from the perspective of those who live in situations of vulnerability and poverty and the theologian should assume a role of advocacy towards liberation
Read MorePosted by Christopher Vogt | Jul 23, 2013 | Lectionary |
Lectionary #111 Genesis 18:20-32 Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 On the surface, the theme of this Sunday’s readings seems to be “It never hurts to ask…and ask, and ask!” In the first...
Read MorePosted by Christopher Vogt | Jul 23, 2013 | Current Events |
The role of the moral theologian is to assist the Australian Catholic Church to have a genuinely comprehensive response to the challenges to our humanity that we experience today, which will certainly include life ethics and sexual ethics, but also social, political and ecological ethics. In this way, moral theology defines itself not by reaction to some recent social developments, but rather by the comprehensiveness of the Church’s moral teaching itself.
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