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Please find here the front matter and table of contents for our special issue on Scripture and Moral Theology.
This volume includes a set of essays that attempt to respond to the call of Vatican II to do Catholic moral theology in a manner nourished more by the teaching of Scripture. How they do so invites reflection on the ways that this set of essays is illustrative of both the contemporary status quaestionis of scholarship on Scripture and moral theology and of certain thematic emphases in Catholic moral theology more broadly. They offer one trajectory of development in scholarship on Scripture and moral theology in the half century since Vatican II. That trajectory is the move from a preoccupation with method in thedeluge of scholarship on Scripture and ethics in the 1970s–90s, to a contemporary emphasis on virtue and formation without such preoccupation on method.
Table of Contents
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This essay introduces the volume’s essays, narrating one trajectory in scholarship on Scripture and ethics in the half-century since Vatican II that focuses on formation in the Christian life.
- ArticleThis essay identifies the inadequacy of certain contemporary notions of faith among the "Nones" and self-identifying Christians via a robust account of Abraham’s communal faith journey.
- ArticleThis essay analyzes how Joseph functions in the Gospel of Matthew as an exemplar of Jesus's teaching on true righteousness, defined primarily as showing mercy to others.
- ArticleThis essay explores the concept of conversion (metanoia) in the preaching of John the Baptist and Christ by drawing from Lonergan, New Testament scholarship and Thomas Aquinas.
- ArticleThis essay examines how Aquinas’s exegesis of key biblical texts shapes his teaching on conversion as a grace-empowered journey from sin's enslavement to the freedom of God’s children.
This essay contends that almsgiving serves as an important formative practice for Christian discipleship that opens the disciple towards faith in God, atonement for sins, and the reception of grace.
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This essay argues that the command/counsel distinction is solidly biblical and does not imply two-tiered ethics.
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This essay draws from Augustine's and Aquinas's commentary on Romans 7 to envision grace enabled recovery from addiction as an ongoing struggle with sin.