Introduction to the Special Issue of Religions—“The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics”

Anna Abram

doi:10.3390/rel9010019

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If the past is said to be a foreign country, then the future must be even less native.[...]

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Introduction to the Special Issue ofReligions—“TheFuture of Catholic Theological Ethics” Anna AbramReceived: 7 December 2017; Accepted: 19 December 2017; Published: 10 January 2018If the past is said to be a foreign country, the future must be even less native
Selling considers a number of challenges for the future Catholic theological ethics including, at the end of his paper here and the book, the challenge of teaching
The exercise of reframing Catholic theological ethics into a more ecumenical discourse is considered by Stewart (Stewart 2017) in her ‘Hermeneutic and teleology in ethics across denominations—Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth’ and Peter Sedgwick in his ‘Anglican moral theology and ecumenical dialogue’ (Sedgwick 2017)

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Introduction to the Special Issue ofReligions—“TheFuture of Catholic Theological Ethics” Anna AbramReceived: 7 December 2017; Accepted: 19 December 2017; Published: 10 January 2018If the past is said to be a foreign country, the future must be even less native. The papers presented here cover several major themes that, traditionally, Catholic theological ethics have considered but, according to the authors of the papers, need revisiting. Amongst these themes are: conscience, virtue, natural law, authority, ecumenism, the human person and the theology of theological ethics.

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