Change in official Catholic moral teachings /

Change in official Catholic moral teachings / edited by Charles E. Curran. - New York : Paulist Press, c2003. - x, 336 p. ; 21 cm. - Readings in moral theology ; no. 13 .

Includes bibliographical references.

The declaration on religious freedom / John Courtney Murray -- Religious liberty / Émile-Joseph De Smedt -- Catholicism and democracy : conflict, change, and collaboration / J. Bryan Hehir -- Churches and human rights : from hostility/reluctance to acceptability / Charles E. Curran -- Reflections on slavery / Diana Hayes -- The correction of the common Catholic teaching concerning slavery by Pope Leo XIII / John Francis Maxwell -- Usury : the amendment of papal teaching by theologians / John T. Noonan, Jr.-- The right to silence : magisterial development / Patrick Granfield -- Catholicism and capital punishment / Avery Dulles -- To kill or not to kill : the Catholic Church and the problem of the death penalty / E. Christian Brugger -- The changing anthropological bases of Catholic social teaching / Charles E. Curran -- What ever happened to octogesima adveniens? / Mary Elsbernd -- Marriage and sexuality : magisterial teaching from 1918 to the present / John Gallagher -- Magisterial teaching on marriage 1880-1986 : historical constancy or radical development? / Joseph A. Selling -- Family and Catholic social teaching / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Encountering the other : the modern papacy on women / Christine E. Gudorf -- Development in moral doctrine / John T. Noonan, Jr.-- Catholic medical ethics : a tradition which progresses / Raphael Gallagher -- Progress in the moral tradition / Marciano Vidal.

Brings together previously published studies presenting the spectrum of opinion on the change in official Catholic moral teachings. The essays address two important questions: What is the nature of the change that has taken place in official Catholic moral teachings and how have such changes occurred? The essays reflect some of the factors that have influenced these changes: the Holy Spirit; anthropological insights; prophetic witness; human experience and more.Among the authors of the nineteen essays are such distinguished theologians as J. Bryan Hehir; John T. Noonan, Jr.; Diana Hayes; Avery Dulles and Lisa Sowle Cahill.

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