Renovating the Concept of Humanity - The Shift of Vatican II in Moral Theology.
Renovating the Concept of Humanity - The Shift of Vatican II in Moral Theology
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Morality, anthropology, dignity, personal relationships, magisteriumAbstract
Moral theology needs to have two dimensions: objective and subjective, consisting of personal experiences that are internalized, and objective moral values and rules. Around the Vatican II Council, the Church's moral theology underwent many changes, starting with the renewal of anthropological as well as sociological perspectives found in Gaudium et Spes, a view directed toward the subject, carrying within it a wounded humanity. The following article is first an effort to present some characteristic points of moral theology before Vatican II, then to explore the shift in moral theology during and after Vatican II, and finally to introduce a new moral theology based on a renewed concept of humanity.
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