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Servais Pinckaers · 1995
Pinckaers' magisterial account of Catholic moral-theology sources; Aquinas-centered counter-narrative to Augustinian shame frameworks; reference for developmental-theology arc.
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Christian ethics finds its true source in beatitude, virtue, and grace — not obligation, law, or casuistry.
faith-and-doubt
Christian ethics is that branch of theological wisdom that studies human actions so as to direct them to the loving vision of God, which is complete happiness and our final end.
PINC-SCE-RC-053Scripture, the Gospel contemplated and fulfilled, living tradition, and the help of the Holy Spirit form the permanent source of the Church's life.
PINC-SCE-RC-210obedience-and-authority
God's sovereign power over man created the moral bond… A higher will thus exerted pressure and constraint upon a lower one.
PINC-SCE-RC-326For Ockham, love tended to be confused with obedience to obligations. Thus the moral field came to be fenced in by moral obligations.
PINC-SCE-RC-241In place of the virtues, basic moral theory dealt with laws and sins… It was no longer a matter of a moral theory of the virtues, but of legal obligations.
PINC-SCE-RC-226education-and-formation
Learning freedom requires exercise in the principal rules of moral life, with the help of appropriate teachers; we must overcome our passions.
PINC-SCE-RC-341Illuminates
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
Introduction to Survey Sampling
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700)
Sister Outsider
Bright Lights, Big City
The Lover