The critical calling : reflections on moral dilemmas since Vatican II /

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Author / Creator:	McCormick, Richard A., 1922-2000.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 414 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Moral traditions series Moral traditions series.
Subject:	Christian ethics -- Catholic authors. Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Catholicism. Ethics. Christian ethics -- Catholic authors. Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11260798

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ISBN:	9781589014343 1589014340 1589010833 9781589010833
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	When Richard A. McCormick's The Critical Calling was first published, Andrew M. Greeley commented that in years to come scholars will look back on Father McCormick's work and say, 'This was a man who knew what he was talking about!' In this reissue, with a new foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill, both first-time readers and those opening the pages for a return visit with an honored friend will find Greeley's characterization remains valid. Father McCormick begins The Critical Calling with his personal affirmation of the work of Vatican II: I believe the Council was a work of the Spiritdesperately n.
Other form:	Print version: McCormick, Richard A., 1922-2000. Critical calling. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006 1589010833

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Part I. Fundamental Moral Theology
1. Moral Theology since Vatican II: Clarity or Chaos?
2. Dissent in the Church: Loyalty or Liability?
3. Moral Argument in Christian Ethics
4. The Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology
5. Bishops as Teachers, Scholars as Listeners
6. L'Affaire Curran
7. Pluralism in Moral Theology
8. Catholic Moral Theology: Is Pluralism Pathogenic
9. Matters of Free Theological Debate
10. Fundamental Freedom Revisited
11. Theology in the Public Forum
Part II. Practical and Pastoral Questions
12. The Consistent Ethic of Life: Is There a Historical Soft Underbelly?
13. Divorce, Remarriage and the Sacraments
14. "A Clean Heart Create for Me, O God." Impact Questions on the Artificial Heart
15. Genetic Technology and Our Common Future
16. Sterilization: The Dilemma of Catholic Hospitals
17. Homosexuality as a Moral and Pastoral Problem
18. AIDS: The Shape of the Ethical Challenge
19. Therapy or Tampering? The Ethics of Reproductive Technology and the Development of Doctrine
20. If I Had Ten Things to Share with Physicians
21. Nutrition-Hydration: The New Euthanasia?
22. The Physician and Teenage Sexuality
Index

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