TY - BOOK AU - Hamel,Ronald P. AU - Himes,Kenneth R. TI - Introduction to Christian ethics: a reader SN - 0809130653 : AV - BJ 1249 .I57 1989 U1 - 241/.042 20 PY - 1989///] CY - New York PB - Paulist Press KW - Catholic Church KW - Doctrines KW - Christian ethics KW - Catholic authors N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Situating Ourselves -- Christian Ethics: Biblical and Historical Perspectives -- The Bible and Christian Morality -- How Free and Creative Was and Is Moral Theology? -- Shifts in Catholic: Moral Theology -- The Human Person in Contemporary Theology: From Human Nature to Authentic Subjectivity -- New Patterns of Relationship: Beginnings of Moral Revolution -- Values, Victims, and Visions -- Moral Theology: The Nature of the Discipline -- Overview of the Discipline's Subject Matter -- Method in Moral Theology An Overview from an American Perspective --The Structure and Basis of the Moral Experience -- The Role of Faith in Christian Ethics -- The Criterion for Deciding What Is Christian -- Can Ethics Be Christian? Some Conclusions -- Does Religious Faith Add to Ethical Perception? -- The Moral Self And The Sort Of Person One Is And Becomes -- Moral Character -- Toward an Ethics of Character -- Spiritual Life and Moral Life -- Liturgy and Ethics: Some New Beginnings -- Freedom and Fundamental Option -- Basic Freedom and Morality -- Sin and Conversion -- Missing the Mark -- Sin and Conversion -- Social Sin and Conversion: A Theology of the Church's Social Involvement -- Christian Conversion: Developmental and Theological Reflection on Young Thomas Marton -- Conversion and Christian Ethics -- Conscience and Moral Development -- Conscience: The Sanctuary of Creative Fidelity and Liberty -- Visions of Maturity -- Disciplines: Repentance, Prayer and Service -- Making Moral Choices: Resources For Reflection -- Scripture -- What Are They Saying About Scripture and Ethics? -- The Use of the Bible in Christian Ethics -- The Church as Teacher and Dissent in the Church -- The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Vatican Council II --Doctrinal Authority for a Pilgrim Church -- Canon 752 -- Reflections on a Canon -- Bishops, Theologians and Morality -- The Search for Truth in a Catholic Context -- Norms of Licit Theological Dissent -- Public Dissent in the Church -- Conscience Formation and the Teaching of the Church -- reason and Natural Law -- Can Moral Theology Ignore Natural law? -- The Traditional Concept of Natural Law: An Interpretation -- The empirical Sciences -- The relationship of Empirical Science to Moral Thought -- The Voice Of Experience: The Nature, Use And Limits Of Moral Norms -- The meaning and Origin of Moral norms -- The Meaning of Moral Principle -- Overview of the Debate -- The Objective Moral Order: Reflections on Recent Research -- The Contemporary Debate -- The Meaning and Limits of Moral Norms -- The Absoluteness of Behavioral Moral Norms -- Catholics Ethics: has the Norm for Rule-making Changed? -- Making Moral Choices: "What Ought I To Do? -- The Moral Act -- Ethics: How To Do It -- Moral Methodology: A Case Study --Reason and Feeling in Moral Discernment -- The Reasoning Heart: An American Approach to Christian Discernment -- Moral Discernment in the Christian Life ER -