Course Description
This seminar offers a sampling of the pre-history of moral theology, as it were, with its foundations in the Word of God in Scripture, proceeding through the patristic and scholastic periods, and finally focusing on the modern and contemporary eras.
Bibliography
SERVAIS PINCLAERS, O.P., Christian Ethics according to St. Paul, in The Sources of Christian Ethics, trans. Sr. Mary Thomas Noble, O.P, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995.
NORMAN RUSSELL, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: 169-88; 190-205.
STEPHEN WANG, The Indetermination of Reason and the Role of the Will in Aquinas’s Account of Human Freedom, New Blackfriars 90, 2009: 108-29.
BRIAN BESONG, Reappraising the Manual Tradition, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89, 2015: 557–584.
MATTHEW LEVERING, Pinckaers and Häring on Conscience, Journal of Moral Theology 8, 2019: 134-165.