Loyal dissent : memoir of a Catholic theologian / Charles E. Curran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curran, Charles E.

Series:

Moral traditions series.

Moral traditions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--Biography.

Catholics.

Catholic University of America--Faculty--Biography.

Catholic University of America.

Curran, Charles E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loyal Dissent is the candid and inspiring story of a Catholic priest and theologian who, despite being stripped of his right to teach as a Catholic theologian by the Vatican, remains committed to the Catholic Church. Over a nearly fifty-year career, Charles E. Curran has distinguished himself as the most well-known and the most controversial Catholic moral theologian in the United States. On occasion, he has disagreed with official church teachings on subjects such as contraception, homosexuality, divorce, abortion, moral norms, and the role played by the hierarchical teaching office in moral

Contents:

Beginnings

CUA : the early years

The uproar over Humanae vitae

Growing tensions and maturing theology : the seventies

Investigation and condemnation

More trials

Life after condemnation

My moral theology

The development of theology in the past fifty years

My relationship to the Catholic Church.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Published works of Charles E. Curran": p. 277-280.

ISBN:

9781589013636

1589013638

9781435631939

1435631935

OCLC:

652626233