Catholic moral theology

Short description: Major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics

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Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast to dogmatic theology which proposes "what one is to believe".

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 History
* 2.1 Middle Ages
* 2.2 Baroque period and Reformation
* 2.3 Birth of manualism
* 2.4 Contemporary
* 3 Approaches
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 6.1 Manualism

## Overview

Sources of Catholic moral theology include both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and philosophical ethics such as natural law that are seen as compatible with Catholic doctrine. Moral theology was mostly undifferentiated from theology in general during the patristic era, and is found in the homilies, letters and commentaries on Scripture of the early Church fathers.

Examples of Catholic moral theologians include St. Alphonsus Liguori (author of Theologia Moralis), Bartolomé Medina (originator of Probabilism), Dominic Prümmer (Compensationism), Bernhard Häring (Dialogical Ethics), Servais Pinckaers (Nouvelle théologie), Germain Grisez and John Finnis (New Natural Law).

Moral theology tends to be advanced most authoritatively through official statements of doctrine, such as papal encyclicals, which are based on the dogmatic pronouncements of Ecumenical Councils (e.g., Vatican II), Sacred Scriptures, and Sacred Tradition. In addition, moral theologians publish their own works and write in a variety of journals devoted in whole, or in part to moral theology. These scholarly journals are helpful in making the theology of the Church more clear and accessible to others, and serve as a forum in which scholarly discussion of understanding and application of issues occurs. However, these journals per se do not add or remove anything from Catholic teaching.

The curriculum for formation of priests commonly includes required and elective courses in Catholic moral theology.

## History

### Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, moral theology developed in precision and scope through scholasticism. Much of the Catholic Church's current moral theology, especially regarding natural law, is based in the Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas, which is regarded as one of the best treatises of Catholic moral theology.[1]

### Baroque period and Reformation

Although many theologians found inspiration in Aquinas from his death onwards, moral theology did not become its own separate field of scholarship until after the council of Trent at the dawn of the baroque period and the reformation, one of the wishes of the council fathers was to set out the more rigorous training of priests which would lead to the genesis of seminaries. Through the renewal of learning in the Church specialisation would begin to take root in the curriculum, with theology becoming fragmented into different 'fields' such as dogmatic, moral, spiritual theology and so on. This would lead to the birth of the genre of the 'Manual'.

### Birth of manualism

Manualism designates an approach to Christian ethics, especially in Catholic moral theology,[2][3][4][5][6]\-->[7][8][9] associated with Alphonsus Liguori[10][11] and the tradition of "moral manuals" (instruction manuals teaching explicitly right and wrong)[12][13]Cite error: Closing `</ref>` missing for `<ref>` tag

The first manual of moral theology was written by the Jesuit, Juan Azor in three volumes, his Institutionum Moralium published in the 17th century. Although claiming patrimony to Aquinas, nominalism was most prolific at the time among the intellectual elite which seems to have influenced Azor's outlook in his work, instead of focusing on the beatitudes and virtues in the moral life as Aquinas in his Summa, nominalism emphasises the obligatory and legal nature of God's commands as a result of the arbitrary will of God and a person's conscience before the law, many would follow Azor's model with few modifications and this outlook would influence the whole manualist tradition of moral theology which would become less dominant after Vatican II, during this period it became more common for alternative approaches or attempts to return to a biblical, patristic or scholastic approach before the influence of nominalism and outgrowth of casuistry which was characteristic of the tridentine period.

### Contemporary

Contemporary Catholic moral theology is developed by acts of the Magisterium, by the Pope, other bishops, and by the works of lay Catholic moral theologians, which include magisterial teachings, as well as (in some matters) theological opinions.

## Approaches

* In a deontological approach, morality takes the form of a studying of "how one is to act" in relation to the laws established by the faith. See also Casuistry.
* In a teleological approach, "how one is to act" is related to the ultimate end which is again established by the faith. See also Virtue Ethics
* In a dialogical approach, morality follows the pattern of faith directly, the "how one is to act" is related to an encounter with God through faith.[14] Moral living is response to the Logos or Word of God. "Faith in the Logos...understands moral values as responsibility, as a response to the Word, and thus gives them their intelligibility as well as their essential orientation."[15]

## See also

* Catholic teachings on sexual morality
* Catholicism
* Christian theology
* Ten Commandments in Catholic theology
* Traditionalist Catholic

## References

1. ↑ Lehmkuhl, Augustinus (1912). "Moral Theology". in Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
2. ↑ The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics - Page 508 Gilbert Meilaender, William Werpehowski · 2007 FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 508 the manualists: 'no period is more important in the history of moral theology than the late 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries'. But he then added, 'this is perhaps less a criticism of M. than a reXection on our almost complete ...
3. ↑ Boersma, Hans (2012). "Nature and the Supernatural in la nouvelle théologie: The Recovery of a Sacramental Mindset". New Blackfriars 93 (1043): 34–46. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2011.01434.x.
4. ↑ Hart, David Bentley.
5. ↑ Genilo, Eric Marcelo O. (2007). John Cuthbert Ford, SJ: Moral Theologian at the End of the Manualist Era. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-181-6.
6. ↑ Petri, Thomas (2016). "From Thomas Aquinas to the Manualists". Aquinas and the Theology of the Body. Catholic University of America Press. pp. 11–44. ISBN 978-0-8132-2847-1.
7. ↑ Senz, Nicholas. "Shifting Away From Manualism: On Forming Consciences" (in en). https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/pruning-prudence-on-forming-consciences-not-replacing-them/.
8. ↑ Engelhardt, H. Tristram (November 2011). "Orthodox Christian Bioethics: Some Foundational Differences from Western Christian Bioethics". Studies in Christian Ethics 24 (4): 487–499. doi:10.1177/0953946811415018. "the Counter-Reformation, the manualist tradition produced a wealth of reflections between".
9. ↑ Wicks, Jared (1986). "Review of Foundational Theology. Jesus and the Church". Gregorianum 67 (2): 374–376.
10. ↑ Haddorff, David W. "Relying on Aquinas, Prudently." (1998): 562-564. position of Alphonsus Liguori. It was not only Liguori's manualist method of applying...
11. ↑ KROM, MICHAEL P.. "Review". Journal of Moral Theology. https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/13360.pdf. "manualist tradition’s focus on the distinction between material and formal cooperation with evil as well as on the intention of those who so cooperate is at least implicit in our modes of argumentation.
Flannery begins by showing the inadequacies of the approach to cooperation with evil found in St. Alphonsus Liguori and the subsequent manualist tradition. Most pointedly, Liguori uses Aquinas’s theory of morally indifferent acts in order to clarify his own position on material cooperation and yet, as becomes even clearer in the later manualists, this ends up revealing the problems with his own analysis. In chapter 2, Flannery finds the answer to these problems by focusing on Aquinas’s account of how circumstances factor into the morality of indifferent acts. Rather than focus on the intention of the cooperator, Aquinas looks at the broader issues of whether or not an action is consistent with reason, justice, and charity. Chapter 3 helps to clarify all of this via the issue of scandal: Alphonsus ignores all others affected by acts of cooperation as well as “how the actions performed relate to the ultimate end and order of the moral universe” (122).".
12. ↑ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits. 2017. "After the Council of Trent until the twentieth century, moral theology was shaped by the moral manuals used in seminaries to form future confessors. Manualist moral theology was concerned with avoidance of sin and obedience"
13. ↑ Hart, David Bentley (2015-06-01). "Romans 8:19-22" (in English). First Things (Institute on Religion and Public Life) (254): 72–74. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/romans-81922. "In theological circles, the term "Thomism" (or "traditional Thomism" or "manualist Thomism" or "two-tier Thomism") typically refers not to the writings of Thomas himself, or even to any given scholar [...] who happens to study Thomas's thought, but to a particular faction of Baroque neoscholasticism, which began in the sixteenth century, principally with Domingo Banez, and which largely died out in the twentieth, principally with Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
This was the tradition that produced the infamous Thomist "manuals," and that a succession of Catholic scholars [...] assailed as an impoverished early modern distortion of the medieval synthesis,".
14. ↑ Bernhard Häring, Free and faithful in Christ. Moral Theology for priests and laity, I/General Moral Theology. For freedom Christ has set us free (Gal 5,1), Slough 1978, focus on chapter 3
15. ↑ Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal (Pope Benedict XVI). Introduction To Christianity, 2nd Edition (Communio Books) (Kindle Locations 304-306). Ignatius Press.

## Further reading

* Pinckaers O.P, Servais, (1995), The Sources of Christian Ethics, Catholic University of America Press
* Prümmer O.P, Dominic (1956) Handbook of Moral Theology. The Mercier Press Ltd.
* Slater S.J., Thomas (1925). A manual of moral theology for English-speaking countries. Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd..
* Grisez, Germain (2008). The Way of the Lord Jesus. Franciscan Herald Press.
* Häring CSsR, Bernhard (1978). Free and Faithful in Christ (3. Vols.) St. Paul Publications
* Lehmkuhl, Augustinus (1912). "Moral Theology". in Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

### Manualism

* Kennedy, David. The presence of Christ in the Eucharist: a strange neglect of the Resurrection?. MS thesis. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015.
* Reno, R R. "Theology After the Revolution | R. R. Reno" (in en). https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/05/theology-after-the-revolution.

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Seven virtues in Christian ethics

Four
cardinal virtues|

* Prudence (Prudentia)
* Justice (Iustitia)
* Fortitude (Fortitudo)
* Temperance (Temperantia)

* Sources: Plato
* Republic, Book IV
* Cicero
* Ambrose
* Augustine of Hippo
* Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Hope and Love, as portrayed by Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861–1916)

Three
theological virtues|

* Faith (Fides)
* Hope (Spes)
* Love (Caritas)

* Sources: Paul the Apostle
* 1 Corinthians 13

Seven deadly sins|

* Lust (Luxuria)
* Gluttony (Gula)
* Greed (Avaritia)
* Sloth (Acedia)
* Wrath (Ira)
* Envy (Invidia)
* Pride (Superbia)

* Source: Prudentius, Psychomachia

* People: Evagrius Ponticus
* John Cassian
* Pope Gregory I
* Dante Alighieri
* Peter Binsfeld

Related concepts|

* Ten Commandments
* Great Commandment
* Eschatology
* Sin
* Original sin
* Old Covenant
* Hamartiology

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Key figures

General|

* History of the Catholic Church
* Timeline
* History of the papacy
* Papal primacy
* Ecumenical councils
* Catholic Bible
* Vulgate
* Biblical canon
* History of Christian theology

Early Church|

* Paul
* Clement of Rome
* First Epistle of Clement
* Didache
* Ignatius of Antioch
* Polycarp
* Epistle of Barnabas
* The Shepherd of Hermas
* Aristides of Athens
* Justin Martyr
* Epistle to Diognetus
* Irenaeus
* Montanism
* Tertullian
* Origen
* Antipope Novatian
* Cyprian

Constantine to
Pope Gregory I

* Eusebius
* Athanasius of Alexandria
* Arianism
* Pelagianism
* Nestorianism
* Monophysitism
* Ephrem the Syrian
* Hilary of Poitiers
* Cyril of Jerusalem
* Basil of Caesarea
* Gregory of Nazianzus
* Gregory of Nyssa
* Ambrose
* John Chrysostom
* Jerome
* Augustine of Hippo
* John Cassian
* Orosius
* Cyril of Alexandria
* Peter Chrysologus
* Pope Leo I
* Boethius
* Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
* Pope Gregory I

Early Middle Ages|

* Isidore of Seville
* John Climacus
* Maximus the Confessor
* Monothelitism
* Ecthesis
* Bede
* John of Damascus
* Iconoclasm
* Transubstantiation dispute
* Predestination disputes
* Paulinus II of Aquileia
* Alcuin
* Benedict of Aniane
* Rabanus Maurus
* Paschasius Radbertus
* John Scotus Eriugena

High Middle Ages|

* Roscellinus
* Gregory of Narek
* Berengar of Tours
* Peter Damian
* Anselm of Canterbury
* Joachim of Fiore
* Peter Abelard
* Decretum Gratiani
* Bernard of Clairvaux
* Peter Lombard
* Anselm of Laon
* Hildegard of Bingen
* Hugh of Saint Victor
* Dominic de Guzmán
* Robert Grosseteste
* Francis of Assisi
* Anthony of Padua
* Beatrice of Nazareth
* Bonaventure
* Albertus Magnus
* Boetius of Dacia
* Henry of Ghent
* Thomas Aquinas
* Siger of Brabant
* Thomism
* Roger Bacon

Mysticism and reforms|

* Ramon Llull
* Duns Scotus
* Dante Alighieri
* William of Ockham
* Richard Rolle
* John of Ruusbroec
* Catherine of Siena
* Bridget of Sweden
* Meister Eckhart
* Johannes Tauler
* Walter Hilton
* The Cloud of Unknowing
* Heinrich Seuse
* Geert Groote
* Devotio Moderna
* Julian of Norwich
* Thomas à Kempis
* Nicholas of Cusa
* Marsilio Ficino
* Girolamo Savonarola
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Reformation
Counter-Reformation

* Erasmus
* Thomas Cajetan
* Thomas More
* John Fisher
* Johann Eck
* Francisco de Vitoria
* Thomas of Villanova
* Ignatius of Loyola
* Francisco de Osuna
* John of Ávila
* Francis Xavier
* Teresa of Ávila
* Luis de León
* John of the Cross
* Peter Canisius
* Luis de Molina (Molinism)
* Robert Bellarmine
* Francisco Suárez
* Lawrence of Brindisi
* Francis de Sales

Baroque period to
French Revolution

* Tommaso Campanella
* Pierre de Bérulle
* Pierre Gassendi
* René Descartes
* Mary of Jesus of Ágreda
* António Vieira
* Jean-Jacques Olier
* Louis Thomassin
* Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
* François Fénelon
* Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism)
* Blaise Pascal
* Nicolas Malebranche
* Giambattista Vico
* Alphonsus Liguori
* Louis de Montfort
* Maria Gaetana Agnesi
* Alfonso Muzzarelli
* Johann Michael Sailer
* Clement Mary Hofbauer
* Bruno Lanteri

19th century|

* Joseph Görres
* Felicité de Lamennais
* Luigi Taparelli
* Antonio Rosmini
* Ignaz von Döllinger
* John Henry Newman
* Henri Lacordaire
* Jaime Balmes
* Gaetano Sanseverino
* Giovanni Maria Cornoldi
* Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler
* Giuseppe Pecci
* Joseph Hergenröther
* Tommaso Maria Zigliara
* Matthias Joseph Scheeben
* Émile Boutroux
* Modernism
* Neo-Scholasticism
* Léon Bloy
* Désiré-Joseph Mercier
* Friedrich von Hügel
* Vladimir Solovyov
* Marie-Joseph Lagrange
* George Tyrrell
* Maurice Blondel
* Thérèse of Lisieux

20th century|

* Nouvelle Theologie
* G. K. Chesterton
* Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
* Joseph Maréchal
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
* Jacques Maritain
* Étienne Gilson
* Ronald Knox
* Dietrich von Hildebrand
* Gabriel Marcel
* Marie-Dominique Chenu
* Romano Guardini
* Edith Stein
* Fulton Sheen
* Henri de Lubac
* Daniel-Rops
* Jean Guitton
* Josemaría Escrivá
* Karl Rahner
* Yves Congar
* Bernard Lonergan
* Emmanuel Mounier
* Jean Daniélou
* Hans Urs von Balthasar
* Alfred Delp
* Thomas Merton
* René Girard
* Johann Baptist Metz
* Jean Vanier
* Henri Nouwen

21st century|

* Carlo Maria Martini
* Pope Benedict XVI
* Walter Kasper
* Raniero Cantalamessa
* Michał Heller
* Peter Kreeft
* Jean-Luc Marion
* Tomáš Halík
* Scott Hahn

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Christian theology

Systematic|

| Scripture|

* Inspiration
* Preservation
* Canonics
* Biblical studies
* Exegesis
* Law and Gospel
* Hermeneutics

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God|

* Attributes
* Patriology
* Christology
* Pneumatology
* Theocentricism
* Theology proper
* Immutability
* Impassibility

Trinity|

* Father
* Son (Hypostatic union
* Incarnation
* Jesus
* Logos
* Christocentric)
* Holy Spirit

Cosmology|

* Creation
* Angels
* Angelic hierarchy
* Humanity
* Fallen angels
* Satan
* Theodicy

Soteriology|

* Absolution
* Adoption
* Assurance
* Atonement
* Baptism
* Calling
* Conditional Security
* Conversion
* Divinization
* Election
* Eternal life
* Faith
* Forgiveness
* Glorification
* Grace
* Irresistible
* Prevenient
* Imputation
* Justification
* Means of grace
* Monergism
* Mortification
* Ordo salutis
* Perseverance
* Predestination
* Recapitulation
* Reconciliation
* Redemption
* Regeneration
* Repentance
* Resurrection
* Salvation
* Sanctification
* Synergism
* Theosis
* Union with Christ

Hamartiology|

* Adam
* Anthropology
* The Fall
* Incurvatus in se
* Original sin
* Sin
* Theodicy
* Total depravity

Ecclesiology|

* Sacrament
* Eucharist
* Missiology
* Polity (Congregational
* Episcopal
* Presbyterian)
* Synod
* Conciliarity

Eschatology|

* Summary of differences
* Historicism
* Idealism
* Dispensationalism
* Futurism
* Preterism
* Millenarianism (Pre- / Post- / A-millennialism)
* Adventism
* Antichrist
* Apocalypse
* Apocalypticism
* Covenant / New Covenant theology
* End times
* Heaven
* Hell
* Last Judgment
* Millennialism
* New Jerusalem
* Rapture
* Second Coming
* Soul sleep
* Tribulation
* War in Heaven

Historical|

* History of Christian theology
* Calvinist–Arminian debate
* Apostolic Age
* Canon
* Patristics
* Caesaropapism
* Semipelagianism
* Iconoclasm
* Scholasticism
* Thomism
* Conciliarism
* Renaissance
* Reformation
* Counter-Reformation
* Pietism
* Great Awakenings

Practical|

* Apologetics
* Biblical law
* Education
* Ethics
* Homiletics
* Liturgics
* Missiology
* Moral
* Pastoral
* Polemics
* Political
* Public

By tradition|

Catholic Church

* Absolution
* Apostolic succession
* Assumption of Mary
* Christian humanism
* Traditionalism
* Ecumenical Councils
* Filioque
* Immaculate Conception
* Indulgences
* Infant baptism
* Josephology
* Liturgy
* Mariology
* Mass
* Modernism
* Natural law
* Papal infallibility
* Priesthood
* Purgatory
* Quartodecimanism
* Real presence
* Sacerdotalism
* Sacrament
* Sainthood
* Scotism
* Thomism
* Transubstantiation
* Ultramontanism
* Veneration

Eastern Orthodox Church

* Apophatic theology
* Cataphatic theology
* Economy
* Essence–energies
* Gnomic will
* Metousiosis
* Phronema
* Phyletism
* Proskynesis
* Sobornost
* Symphonia
* Tabor Light
* Theoria
* Theosis
* Theotokos

Oriental Orthodoxy

* Miaphysitism
* Monophysitism
* Monoenergism
* Monothelitism
* Aphthartodocetism

Protestantism

| General|

* Adiaphora
* Assurance
* Believer's baptism
* Protestant ecclesiology (Branch theory)
* Priesthood of all believers

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Anglican|

* Anglo-Catholicism
* Evangelical Catholic
* High church
* Latitudinarian
* Low church

Wesleyan–Arminian|

* Christian perfection
* Conditional election
* Conditional preservation of the saints
* Imparted righteousness
* Lordship salvation
* Prevenient grace
* Total depravity
* Unlimited atonement

Lutheran|

* Two kingdoms
* Loci Theologici
* Theology of the Cross
* Confessional Lutheranism
* Haugean
* Lutheran orthodoxy
* Lutheran scholasticism
* Neo-Lutheranism

Reformed (Calvinist)|

* Christian reconstructionism
* Covenant theology
* Free Grace
* Monergism
* Predestination
* Five solae (Sola fide
* Sola gratia
* Sola scriptura
* Soli Deo gloria
* Solus Christus)
* Supersessionism
* Total depravity
* TULIP

Pentecostalist|

* Baptism with the Holy Spirit
* Faith healing
* Glossolalia

Other|

* Adventism
* Anabaptism
* Dispensationalism
* Evangelicalism
* Fundamentalism
* Messianic Judaism
* Pietism
* Prosperity theology
* Restorationism

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