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A Church That Can and Cannot Change

- The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching
Af: John T. Noonan Engelsk Paperback

A Church That Can and Cannot Change

- The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching
Af: John T. Noonan Engelsk Paperback
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Using concrete examples, John T. Noonan, Jr., demonstrates that the moral teaching of the Catholic Church has changed and continues to change without abandoning its foundational commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Specifically, Noonan looks at the profound changes that have occurred over the centuries in Catholic moral teaching on freedom of conscience, lending for a profit, and slavery. He also offers a close examination of the change now in progress concerning divorce.

In these changes Noonan perceives the Catholic Church to be a vigorous, living organism answering new questions with new answers, and enlarging the capacity of believers to learn through experience and empathy what love demands. He contends that the impetus to change comes from a variety of sources, including prayer, meditation on Scripture, new theological insights and analyses, the evolution of human institutions, and the examples and instruction given by persons of good will.

Noonan also states that the Church cannot change its commitment to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Given this absolute, how can the moral teaching of the Church change? Noonan finds this question unanswerable when asked in the abstract. But in the context of the specific facts and events he discusses in this book, an answer becomes clear. As our capacity to grasp the Gospel grows, so too, our understanding and compassion, which give life to the Gospel commandments of love, grow.

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Using concrete examples, John T. Noonan, Jr., demonstrates that the moral teaching of the Catholic Church has changed and continues to change without abandoning its foundational commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Specifically, Noonan looks at the profound changes that have occurred over the centuries in Catholic moral teaching on freedom of conscience, lending for a profit, and slavery. He also offers a close examination of the change now in progress concerning divorce.

In these changes Noonan perceives the Catholic Church to be a vigorous, living organism answering new questions with new answers, and enlarging the capacity of believers to learn through experience and empathy what love demands. He contends that the impetus to change comes from a variety of sources, including prayer, meditation on Scripture, new theological insights and analyses, the evolution of human institutions, and the examples and instruction given by persons of good will.

Noonan also states that the Church cannot change its commitment to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Given this absolute, how can the moral teaching of the Church change? Noonan finds this question unanswerable when asked in the abstract. But in the context of the specific facts and events he discusses in this book, an answer becomes clear. As our capacity to grasp the Gospel grows, so too, our understanding and compassion, which give life to the Gospel commandments of love, grow.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9780268036041
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0268036047
Udg. Dato: 14 okt 2004
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 227mm
Forlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Oplagsdato: 14 okt 2004
Forfatter(e): John T. Noonan
Forfatter(e) John T. Noonan


Kategori Romersk katolicisme og romersk-katolske kirker


ISBN-13 9780268036041


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 312


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 154mm


Højde 227mm


Udg. Dato 14 okt 2004


Oplagsdato 14 okt 2004


Forlag University of Notre Dame Press

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