The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics

The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics undertakes a search for new ways of making Catholic theological ethics relevant. It engages with a ground-breaking publication Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics (Oxford University Press 2016) by Joseph Selling Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology Catholic University Leuven. Selling opens the volume with a summary of the approach he developed in the above work. The papers presented here cover several major themes that traditionally Catholic theological ethics have considered but according to the authors of the papers need revisiting. Amongst these themes are: conscience virtue natural law authority ecumenism the human person and the theology of theological ethics. The writers represent a variety of approaches geographical locations and while most of them are Roman Catholic there is an imbedded ecumenism and interreligious and inter-cultural slant in several discussions. The authors agree that Catholic theological ethics in order to be relevant it needs to become more context-sensitive ecumenical practice-based experience-oriented continuously discerning pedagogically wide-ranging and theologically articulate. It must be unceasingly willing to review and renew its method as well as revisit its key concepts. It must neither dismiss its long tradition nor stick to its single interpretation.