The Way of the Lord Jesus is in three volumes but a fourth is projected, dealing with Clerical and Consecrated Service and Life.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Germain Grisez textbook online
The Way of the Lord Jesus is in three volumes but a fourth is projected, dealing with Clerical and Consecrated Service and Life.
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Although he was definitely not on our reading list for moral theology I nonetheless discovered and used Grisez exstensively. I even bought the three volumes and have them on cd as well as on Harmony Media's 'Welcome to the Catholic Church'. His work is comprehensive and valuable. A great on-line resource. Thanks for the notification.
Very good news.
Like Brother Tom, I discovered Grisez independently of my lecturers. I can see what Grisez is referring to when he talks about the secularisation of moral theology - that was still evident in the discourse on moral theology on my course in the 2000's ("Is there such a thing as a 'Christian' morality?").
Having studied (no doubt inadequately) St Thomas' theology of grace, however, I would have reservations about the following claim:
"In short, the underlying difficulty in moral theology has been an inadequate understanding of how Christian life must and can be at the same time completely human and divine (see GS 22, 43, 45, 92).
3. The Fathers of the Church, especially St. Augustine, gave an account of Christian life which stressed the supernatural and other-worldly but hardly did justice to the human and this-worldly. Medieval thought, even that of St. Thomas Aquinas, failed to resolve the problem." (Volume 1, question G)
(copyright © 2008, Germain Grisez, all rights reserved)
It seems to me that St Thomas' theology of grace is a theology of divinisation which could resolve these problems. (grace is “a certain participation in the divine nature" (ST 1-2.112.1) - what is that except an expression of the divine and human nature of the Christian life, including the moral life?).
I read Gary Wills New York review of books Op-Ed. column about Contraceptions' Con-men. He states Popes,theologians for centuries hailed sex in marriage as a necessarry evil & at best dishonourable(According to Grisez this probably would qualify as infallible due to the ordinary unniversal magisterium).He also states what British Historian Lord Acton stated after Pius the IXth condemned democracy & progress "Catholics need go crazy every time a pope does". Do u think Grisez qualifies as one of Contraceptions Con-men ?
If Gary Wills said that Popes taught that sex in marriage was an evil or dishonourable, he is just plain wrong. It certainly isn't part of the ordinary magisterium.
The goods of marriage, and the impact of concupiscence are well explained in the first few books of Augustine's De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia which is widely misrepresented as the foundation for the aberrant view that sex is an evil. The truth is that Augustine did not hold that but asserted the goods of marriage against both the Pelagians and the Manichees. His teaching has informed magisterial teaching ever since.
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