The conflicting evaluations given to moral issues beg for an explanation. Can such an explanation... more The conflicting evaluations given to moral issues beg for an explanation. Can such an explanation be found in the invisible presence of competing rationalities that result in intractable disputes? This essay seeks to explore how the work of Alasdair MacIntyre can be useful in making visible the way competing traditions of moral inquiry hamper our attempts to make tractable currently intractable disputes in the field of moral theology. A comparison between the approach of MacIntyre and Charles E. Curran aims at developing a methodology for evaluating such competing modes of inquiry.
Over a long career of teaching and writing in the area of moral theology Charles E. Curran has ex... more Over a long career of teaching and writing in the area of moral theology Charles E. Curran has experienced large areas of agreement with John Paul II on issues of social justice even while in other areas of personal and sexual issues the two are in serious disagreement. This phenomenon of agreement/disagreement has suggested to Curran that the pope is guilty of using a double methodology in his moral theological writing. Curran's book, The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II, seeks to uncover and substantiate the root of their agreements and disagreements. This article seeks to evaluate Curran's theory. This analysis is done in two parts: first, an examination of the evidence that Curran presents to support his charge against the pope, and second, an examination of the alternative possibility that it is Curran who has the double methodology rather than the pope.
... Of this predilection we can see signs in Augustine and in his influence on succeeding centuri... more ... Of this predilection we can see signs in Augustine and in his influence on succeeding centuries. ... the being of God, this move shifted the universe from the category of creation (implying a necessary relationship to a creator) to the ... 1 The anonymous referee of the Heythrop Journal ...
The conflicting evaluations given to moral issues beg for an explanation. Can such an explanation... more The conflicting evaluations given to moral issues beg for an explanation. Can such an explanation be found in the invisible presence of competing rationalities that result in intractable disputes? This essay seeks to explore how the work of Alasdair MacIntyre can be useful in making visible the way competing traditions of moral inquiry hamper our attempts to make tractable currently intractable disputes in the field of moral theology. A comparison between the approach of MacIntyre and Charles E. Curran aims at developing a methodology for evaluating such competing modes of inquiry.
Over a long career of teaching and writing in the area of moral theology Charles E. Curran has ex... more Over a long career of teaching and writing in the area of moral theology Charles E. Curran has experienced large areas of agreement with John Paul II on issues of social justice even while in other areas of personal and sexual issues the two are in serious disagreement. This phenomenon of agreement/disagreement has suggested to Curran that the pope is guilty of using a double methodology in his moral theological writing. Curran's book, The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II, seeks to uncover and substantiate the root of their agreements and disagreements. This article seeks to evaluate Curran's theory. This analysis is done in two parts: first, an examination of the evidence that Curran presents to support his charge against the pope, and second, an examination of the alternative possibility that it is Curran who has the double methodology rather than the pope.
... Of this predilection we can see signs in Augustine and in his influence on succeeding centuri... more ... Of this predilection we can see signs in Augustine and in his influence on succeeding centuries. ... the being of God, this move shifted the universe from the category of creation (implying a necessary relationship to a creator) to the ... 1 The anonymous referee of the Heythrop Journal ...
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