San Antonio College Library

"The problem to be discussed in the following five chapters is the age-old question of how the moral is related to the religious." [Introduction].

A collection of previously published essays. Includes index. Table of Contents: Moral theology looks at itself: The historical development of moral theology. Moral theology in the United States. What is distinctive and unique about Christian ethics and Christian morality? Moral theology in dialogue with biomedicine and bioethics -- Moral theology looks at our society: Just taxation in the Roman Catholic tradition. Filial responsibility for an elderly...

"Evocations of Grace introduces a new generation of readers to the thought of Joseph Sittler. Gathering ten of Sittler's seminal works - works foundational to the field yet inaccessible until now - this volume conveys Sittler's powerful argument for the vital connection between Christian theology, ethics, and the natural world. In an area where so much writing tends to be drearily repetitious, Sittler - even forty years later - remains a fresh voice....

"This work is the first of a two-volume set that will explore the promise and challenge of public religion. These works are intended not as the last word on the subject; rather, the author hopes to initiate a national conversation - providing a guided tour of public religion in America, exploring the role religion has played, is playing, and could play in our life together as a nation."--Jacket.

"The media abound with stories of medical ethics dilemmas - test tube babies, surrogate mothers, problem pregnancies, genetic engineering, organ transplants, AIDS, living wills, deathbed decisions, and physician assisted suicide. This book is truly a reader-friendly text, an introduction to these key medical moral issues, written for ordinary people asking real-life questions. Students of all ages, adult discussion groups, pastoral ministers, health...

"A spirited reevaluation of the public moralists who shaped public policy in nineteenth-century America, Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age provides a refreshing look at a group of Americans whose importance to the history of our country has commonly been dismissed. A public interest group that labeled the generation following the American Civil War as the "Gilded Age," Mugwumps were college-educated individuals who lived the lessons of...