Pastoral Guide Moral-Canonical-liturgical: A Text Book:-3 Vol.Set

includes index and biblioraphy

FUNDAMENTAL MORAL THEOLOGY INTRODUCTION PRELIMINARY NOTIONS A SHORT HISTORY OF MORAL THEOLOGY The Old Testament............................................ 11 The New Testament.......................................... 11 The patristic period........................................... 13 The dark ages...................................................... 14 The middle ages................................................. 15 The classical period........................................... 17 Early efforts at renewal.................................... 18 Critical appraisal................................................ 19 Real renewal........................................................ 23 MORAL THEOLOGY AND ALLIED SUBJECTS Moral Theology and Dogmatic Theology..... 25 Moral Theology and Ethics ............................. 26 Moral Theology and Spiritual Theology...... 28 Moral Theology and Pastoral Theology........ 30 Moral Theology and Canon Law.................... 31 Moral Theology and natural sciences........... 33 SOURCES OF MORAL THEOLOGY Holy Scripture.....................................................34 Tradition............................................................... 37 Ecclesiastical Magisterium...............................45 Fathers, Doctors and Theologians of the Church......................................................47 The sense of the faithful, the sense of the faith and sense of the Church................ 51 Civil Laws............................................................. 54 THE METHOD AND IMPORTANCE OF MORAL THEOLOGY The method .........................................................55 The importance...................................................57 CHRISTIAN LIFE IS THE FOLLOWING OF CHRIST Christian life is a call to live the life of Jesus...................................................58 Christian life is a participation in the paschal mystery........................................... 60 Following Christ in concrete means the observance of God`s commandments...........61 The Christian must be led by the Spirit of God ...................................................................62 CHRISTIAN LIFE IS HUMAN LIFE HUMAN ACTS Previous knowledge of the intellect.............. 64 Free will............................................................... 66 The act must be willed..................................... 66 The act must be freely willed......................... 70 IMPEDIMENTS TO HUMAN ACTS Factors that directly affect the working of the intellect.................................... 76 Ignorance............................................................. 76 Passion.................................................................. 80 Factors that directly affect the free choice of the will............................................... 84 Violence................................................................ 84 Fear........................................................................ 86 Factors that indirectly affect the working of the intellect and will.................................... 88 Temperament and character........................... 88 Hereditary dispositions, social, economic and geographic environment, etc.................. 90 Habits.................................................................... 92 Diseases................................................................ 95 Psychosis.............................................................. 95 Psychoneurosis................................................... 96 Neurasthenia....................................................... 96 Hysteria................................................................ 97 Mass suggestion................................................. 99 Conclusion......................................................... 101

V1. Fundamental Moral Theology and Virtues.-- V2. Sacraments and Bioethics.-- V3. Handbook on the Latin and Oriental Codes of Canon Law.