An Introduction to Fundamental Moral Theology

Robert Ignatius Letellier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

199 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0058-3 (ISBN)

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This book discusses fundamental morals, that branch of theology that studies human acts and the sources and motivations of these deliberate acts. This can help the disciple of Jesus Christ to direct these acts to the loving vision of God, understood as his/her true, complete happiness and final end. This study principally examines the foundations of fundamental moral theology, the ideas underpinning this major category of doctrine in the Christian Church, the equivalent to an ethics of religions. While this theology derives its basic moral teaching from the Bible, it adds other distinctive emphases, namely, the concept of the ius naturale (the Natural Law), a tradition drawn from hierarchical ecclesial teaching and from human reason. This encompasses social teaching, medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. The exposition explores how the advent of Jesus Christ, his life and teaching, is central to this theology. A bridge between faith and reason is needed to grasp principles and moral imperatives, and to perceive the positive in human law. The discussion explains why it is necessary further to understand the implication of the individual moral conscience, and the freedom to make moral decisions.

Robert Ignatius Letellier was educated in Grahamstown, Cambridge, Salzburg, Rome and Jerusalem. He is a member of Trinity College Cambridge, UK, the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, UK, and the Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, UK. He has published over 100 academic works, including books and articles on early and Romantic novels (particularly the Gothic Novel and Sir Walter Scott), the Bible, history, and European culture. He specializes in the Romantic opera, especially the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Fromental Halévy, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, and Adolphe Adam, the opéra-comique, the operetta, Ludwig Minkus and nineteenth-century ballet.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-0364-0058-1 / 1036400581
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0058-3 / 9781036400583
Zustand	Neuware