Conscience in Context Historical and Existential Perspectives
In this book, the author presents a detailed study of the notion of conscience from the perspective of its historical development and existential environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight conscience's dignity and fallibility, as well as its dependence upon the context of virtue and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30739688*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One Setting the Scene: Fragmentation; MacIntyre's Analysis of Moral Fragmentation; Porter's Analysis of Fragmentation in Moral Theology; Pinckaers and the Fragmentation of Freedom; Summing up the Evidence; Corresponding Fragmentation in the Notion of Conscience; Conclusion; Chapter Two Conscience in Classical Culture and Sacred Scripture; Semantic Background to the Use of Conscience in the New Testament; Conscience in the Writing of Saint Paul; Jewish and Hellenistic Influences on the Notion of Syneidēsis.
- Later New Testament UsageConclusion; Chapter Three Medieval Investigations on Conscience; Patristic Sources and Medieval Application; Early Scholastic Definitions of Synderesis; Ratio Superior, Ratio Inferior and Synderesis; The First Treatise on Conscience
- Philip the Chancellor; Saint Bonaventure; Saint Albert the Great; Saint Thomas Aquinas; Conclusion; Appendix 1
- A Shift in the Understanding of Conscience: The Influence of the Manuals; Appendix 2
- A Comparison of Key Commentary Passages Containing Synderesis; Chapter Four Issues on the Nature and Function of Conscience; Introduction.
- The Question of Deduction in ConscienceThe Content and Purpose of Synderesis; Josef Pieper on Truth and Being as the Foundation for Morality; Joseph Ratzinger on Conscience as the Capacity to Know the Truth; What Kind of Content?; Conclusion; Chapter Five Conscience and Virtue; Introduction; Constitutive Elements of Virtue; Conscience and Particular Virtues; Conclusion
- Coming into the Light: Connatural Conscience; Chapter Six Conscience and the Call to Holiness; Introduction; Ascesis
- A Purification of Intent; Conscience and Prayer; The Gifts of the Holy Spirit and their Role in Conscience.
- Imitatio et Sequela Christi in the Formation of ConscienceCommunio as the Key Context for Christian Conscience; Conclusion; Conclusion; Reviewing the Aim of this Study; Conscience in History; Particular Issues Concerning the Nature and Function of Conscience; Conscience, Virtue, Grace and the Call to Holiness; Bibliography; Index.
