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Traditionally, Catholic moral theology has been based upon an approach that over-emphasized the role of normative ethics and subsequently associated moral responsibility with following or disobeying moral rules. Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics offers an alternative ethical method which, without destroying any of the valuable insights of normative ethics, reorients the discipline to consider human motivation and intention before investigating behavioural options for realizing one's end. Evidence from the New Testament warrants the formation of a teleological method for theological ethics which is further elaborated in the approach taken by Thomas Aquinas. Unfortunately, the insights of the latter were misinterpreted at the time of the counter-reformation. Joseph A. Selling's analysis of moral theological textbooks demonstrates the entrenchment of a normative method aimed at identifying sins in service to the practice of sacramental confession. With a firm basis in the teaching of Vatican II, the 'human person integrally and adequately considered' provides the fundamental criterion for approaching ethical issues in the contemporary world. The perspective then turns to the crucial question of describing the ends or goals of ethical living by providing a fresh approach to the concept of virtue. Selling concludes with suggestions about how to combine normative ethics with this alternative method in theological ethics that begins with the actual, ethical orientation of the human person toward virtuous living.

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Readers with a background in Catholic ethics will no doubt appreciate the concerns of Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics, and will find its suggestions thought-provoking. * Reading Religion * Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics provides a lucid biblical, historical, and systematic argument for person-centered ethical methodology, one that rejects both natural law and authority as candidates for the fundamental norm of morality... A novel combination of biblical, historical, and systematic arguments in favor of proportionalist methodology, this volume is indispensable. Essential. * CHOICE * Selling has given us significant building blocks to revamp important aspects of what Gustafson terms ethical discourse. ... Veteran scholars, graduate students in training, as well as an educated non-specialist alike will all find great profit in reading Selling's work. * James Bretzeke, Louvain Studies *

Joseph Selling provides solid starting points for those who join him in the vocation of reframing Catholic theological ethics. * M. Therese Lysaught (Loyola University), Studies in Christian Ethics * Selling has given us significant building blocks to revamp important aspects of what Gustafson terms ethical discourse. ... Veteran scholars, graduate students in training, as well as an educated non-specialist alike will all find great profit in reading Selling's work. * James Bretzeke, Louvain Studies * Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics provides a lucid biblical, historical, and systematic argument for person-centered ethical methodology, one that rejects both natural law and authority as candidates for the fundamental norm of morality... A novel combination of biblical, historical, and systematic arguments in favor of proportionalist methodology, this volume is indispensable. Essential. * CHOICE * Readers with a background in Catholic ethics will no doubt appreciate the concerns of Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics, and will find its suggestions thought-provoking. * Reading Religion *

Readers with a background in Catholic ethics will no doubt appreciate the concerns of Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics, and will find its suggestions thought-provoking. * Reading Religion * Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics provides a lucid biblical, historical, and systematic argument for person-centered ethical methodology, one that rejects both natural law and authority as candidates for the fundamental norm of morality... A novel combination of biblical, historical, and systematic arguments in favor of proportionalist methodology, this volume is indispensable. Essential. * CHOICE * Selling has given us significant building blocks to revamp important aspects of what Gustafson terms ethical discourse. ... Veteran scholars, graduate students in training, as well as an educated non-specialist alike will all find great profit in reading Selling's work. * James Bretzeke, Louvain Studies * Joseph Selling provides solid starting points for those who join him in the vocation of reframing Catholic theological ethics. * M. Therese Lysaught (Loyola University), Studies in Christian Ethics *

Ieframing Catholic Theological Ethics provides a lucid biblical, historical, and systematic argument for person-centered ethical methodology, one that rejects both natural law and authority as candidates for the fundamental norm of morality... A novel combination of biblical, historical, and systematic arguments in favor of proportionalist methodology, this volume is indispensable Essential. --<em>CHOICE</em>

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Joseph A. Selling is Emeritus Professor of Theological Ethics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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