Continuing the quest for morality truly Christian, truly African : the achievement of Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp. / edited by Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Odozor, Paulinus Ikechukwu, honoree.

Onaiyekan, John O., writer of preface.

Agbaw-Ebai, Maurice Ashley, editor.

Levering, Matthew, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Africa.

Christian ethics.

Christianity and culture--Africa.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 391 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor is among the preeminent moral theologians of our time. ...His contribution to reuniting moral theology to dogmatics is a key element to processing the contention in theological scholarship in the wake of Vatican II and the shifting of the socio-economic global landscape. ...The essays in this volume highlight the fruits of Fr. Odozor's ability to move between the spheres of moral and dogmatic theology, and his particular treatment of the nature of God, ecclesiology, and interreligious dialogue. He is a theologian who is rightly positioned within a postconciliar moral theological context, and his thought is critical as we enter a new era in the Church in which the witness of the faith of African Christians and the reflections and voices of African theologians are finding their legitimate places in the consciousness of the global Church."-- From back cover.

Contents:

Preface / John Cardinal Onaiyekan

Introduction / Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering

Ratzinger's theological anthropology in conversation with aspects of Paulinus Odozor's understanding of the human person in Christ / Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai

Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor's unfinished quest for a truly African and Christian moral theology of marriage / Raymond Olusesan Aina, MSP

Politics, the common good, and holiness / Anthony Akinwale, OP

Aquinas, Balthasar, and African tradition: Christian conversion of individuals and cultures / Melanie Susan Barrett

The importance of anamnesis for moral life / Jana M. Bennett

Abominations and absolute prohibitions: killing the innocent according to Anscombe and Odozor / John Berkman

African theology and a classical theory of inculturation / John C. Cavadini

Catholic comparative theological ethics: elements of an approach to tradition, ethics, and dialogue (with Odozor and Clooney, in the church) / David A. Clairmont

The legacy of the African church fathers to St. Thomas Aquinas's account of virtue growth and spiritual practice / David Elliot

Facing up to the challenge of moral formation in African catechumenates today: drawing on African catechumenates of the past and Paulinus Odozor's seven guidelines for inculturation / Dennis Kasule

Natural law in Baenaezet Bujo, Paulinus Odozor, and Stephen L. Brock / Matthew Levering

Paulinus Odozor and Joseph Ratzinger on the question of moral objectivity: a morality truly African and truly Christian? / Tegha Afuhwi Nji

African and Christian: black sanctity and the future of African Catholicism / Emmanuel Ojeifo

Trinitarian conception of God as basis for an African Christian ethics / Bede Ukwuije, C.S.Sp.

Continuing the quest for a morality truly Christian and African / Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1587311615

9781587311611

OCLC:

1520209080

Publisher Number:

90103822176