The critical calling : reflections on moral dilemmas since Vatican II / Richard A. McCormick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormick, Richard A., 1922-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Catholic authors.

Christian ethics.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

xix, 414 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1989.

Contents:

Part I Fundamental Moral Theology 1

1 Moral Theology since Vatican II: Clarity or Chaos? 3

2 Dissent in the Church: Loyalty or Liability? 25

3 Moral Argument in Christian Ethics 47

4 The Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology 71

5 Bishops as Teachers, Scholars as Listeners 95

6 L'Affaire Curran 111

7 Pluralism in Moral Theology 131

8 Catholic Moral Theology: Is Pluralism Pathogenic? 147

9 Matters of Free Theological Debate 163

10 Fundamental Freedom Revisited 171

11 Theology in the Public Forum 191

Part II Practical and Pastoral Questions 209

12 The Consistent Ethic of Life: Is There a Historical Soft Underbelly? 211

13 Divorce, Remarriage and the Sacraments 233

14 "A Clean Heart Create for Me, O God." Impact Questions on the Artificial Heart 255

15 Genetic Technology and Our Common Future 261

16 Sterilization: The Dilemma of Catholic Hospitals 273

17 Homosexuality as a Moral and Pastoral Problem 289

18 AIDS: The Shape of the Ethical Challenge 315

19 Therapy or Tampering? The Ethics of Reproductive Technology and the Development of Doctrine 329

20 If I Had Ten Things to Share with Physicians 353

21 Nutrition-Hydration: The New Euthanasia? 369

22 The Physician and Teenage Sexuality 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0878404635

0878404643

OCLC:

19625420