Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Conscience in Late Twentieth-Century Magisterial Texts 1
Introduction 1
Section 1 Hermeneutics 2
Section 2 Examination of Select Magisterial Documents 7
Conclusion 33
Chapter 2 Conscience through the Ages: An Overview of Its Intellectual History 36
Introduction 36
Section 1 Scripture 38
Section 2 The Medieval Period and Thomas Aquinas 43
Section 3 Cardinal John Henry Newman 48
Section 4 Post-Vatican II Select Theologians, Bernard Haring and Anne Patrick 56
Conclusion 71
Chapter 3 Conscience Formation (Formation of the Moral Agent) 74
Introduction 74
Section 1 Sidney Callahan on Conscience as Dynamic Engagement 75
Section 2 Richard Gula on Conscience as Capacity, Process, and Judgment 79
Section 3 Spheres of Influence on Conscience Formation 82
Conclusion 100
Chapter 4 Rethinking Dissent 103
Introduction 103
Section 1 Defining Dissent 106
Section 2 Avery Dulles and the 1968 United States Bishops 109
Section 3 Disentangling Dissent and Practical Judgments toward Valid Theological Practices 124
Conclusion 131
Chapter 5 Scandal, Disciple ship, and the Cross 133
Introduction 133
Section 1 Considering Scandal from Sociological and Theological Perspectives 135
Section 2 Discipleship 144
Section 3 Scandal of the Cross and Scandalous Witness 152
Conclusion 158
Conclusion 161
Select Bibliography 165
Index of Subjects 172
Index of Names 174
