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The ethos of the Christian heart : reading Veritatis splendor / Adrian Reimers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reimers, Adrian J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclicals, Papal.
- Christian ethics.
- Christian ethics--Papal documents.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- papal encyclicals.
- John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005--Criticism and interpretation.
- John Paul.
- Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II). Veritatis splendor.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "One of the most studied and critiqued documents of the papal magisterium is largely spoken of with regards to moral theology and the refutation of modern error. Yet Adrian Reimers points out that, as affirmed by this encyclical, the moral life is itself a realm of love and freedom, a place of intimacy with the Creator as much as interaction with others. Reimers is eager to show that the Encyclical is more innovative than it looks, just as morality is not just about the correction of error. It is not content to defend the traditional positions; it traces the paths of a profound renewal in the presentation of Catholic morality. 'We would gladly say that it performs a kind of discreet revolution in the conception of Christian morality, affecting the very bases that support it.'"
- "The publication of Veritatis Splendor met with vigorous opposition and even rejection within the Catholic theological coummunity. But in Veritatis Splendor John Paul II addresses these contemporary conceptions, including dissention, coming to grips with the roots of the modern errors that have resulted in the loss of transcendence. However, the scope of Veritatis Splendor is far broader than evil and judgment of sin. The pope addresses such issues as conscience, intrinsically evil acts, and the theory of fundamental freedom. Inevitably, these discussions revolve around how to conceive the nature of the human act and the conception of natural law."
- "This present work examines this encyclical against the backdrop of the philosophers with whom Karol Wojtyla engaged in his own philosophical project. Of central concern to Wojtyla throughout his career were the nature and prerogatives of the human person. Among his most frequent modern interlocutors were David Hume, Immanuel Kant, the utilitarian school, and Max Scheler. The program of Wojtyla's philosophical corpus is to present an alternative account of the human person to that which has marked the post-Enlightenment world."--from the back cover.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The problem of dissent
- The project of this work
- The Good: A brief overview of the vanishing good
- The meaning of life: Interiority
- Goods and kinds of goodness: Having ; Being
- The truth about good and evil
- The image of God
- The metaphysics of reason
- Communion and the image of God
- The rich young man
- The love of God
- Love of neighbor
- Summary and conclusion
- Enlightenment Perspectives: The modern turn
- Modern perspectives on choosing between good and evil: The case of Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- J. S. Mill
- Max Scheler
- The Human Act: Karol Wojtyla [Pope John Paul II] on the human act: The problem of consciousness ; Consciousness and the will ; Consciousness and the self ; Consciousness and freedom
- Efficacy
- Good and bad acts: Evil
- Conscience: Tradition and the Council: St. Thomas Aquinas on conscience ; Vatican II and subsequent controversies
- John Paul II: Conscience and the heart: Conscience, truth, and duty ; Experience of guilty conscience ; Ethos and the "heart" ; Conscience and the Moral Law ; The essence of conscience
- And hence ...
- Natural Law: The term, "natural law"
- Euthyphro's problem
- Locke's natural law and Mill's utilitarianism
- Utilitarianism and consequentialism: The result ; The subjectivism of utilitarianism
- God and morality
- John Paul II's position.
- Freedom: Freedom of alternatives and determinism
- Freedom and the community: Locke and Mill ; Marxism
- Conditions on freedom: An historical example
- Existential freedom
- Fundamental option
- Freedom in Karol Wojtyla's [Pope John Paul II's] writings
- Wojtyla characterizes fundamental freedom of choice
- Spirituality and transcendence
- Conditions on freedom
- Virtue and the acquisition of freedom
- Intrinsece Malum: Object of the act
- The teleology of acts
- The "beginning" and theology of the body
- Responsibility for reason
- The Holy Spirit
- God and the Meaning of Life: The full meaning of life
- Declining Christ's invitation and the demands of discipleship
- The interior life
- What a life means
- Conclusion: Technological revolution
- Sin and the presence of evil
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 252-263).
- ISBN:
- 1587312425
- 9781587312427
- OCLC:
- 1536547480
- Publisher Number:
- 90102819833
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