Contents
Foreword to the English Edition
Introduction
1. What is Christian Ethics? The Search for a Definition
2. Overview of Christian Ethics: Some Basic Questions
Part One. Ethics, Human and Christian
3. The Human Aspect of Christian Ethics
4. Christian Ethics: Its Distintictive Character
5. Christian Ethics according to St. Paul
6. The Sermon on the Mount and Christian Ethics
7. Is St. Thomas's Moral Teaching Christian?
Part Two. A Brief History of Moral Theology
8. The Patristic Period
9. Moral Theology in the Period of High Scholasticism
10. Moral Theology in the Late Middle Ages: The Nominalist Revolution
11. Moral Theology in the Modern Era of the Manuals
12. Catholic Moral Theology and Protestant Ethics
13. Moral Theology Today
Part Three. Freedom and Natural Law
14. Freedom of Indifference: The Origin of Obligational Moral Theory
15. Freedom for Excellence
16. Human Freedom according to St. Thomas Aquinas
17. Natural Inclinations at the Source of Freedom and Morality
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index