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Vatican II and Moral Theology (Theology of Christian Living (Gaudium et…
Vatican II and Moral Theology
Responding to the problems of the time
Post-modern, pluralistic, secular age
Rationalism - reason is the only basis for belief or action
Romanticism - embrace of impersonal reason, science, and abstraction
Full personal autonomy is the only ideal
Responding to neo-Scholastic and manualistic moral theology
Very rigorous and non-pastoral in its approach
Deductive, static, and abstract methodology
For a long time, it was thought that monasticism was a more perfect life, and so "ordinary" Christians could not be perfect in that way
Development of Moral Theology
Took some influence from the renewal of Catholic spirituality
OT 16:
The discipline of Moral Theology should have a livelier contact with the mystery of Christ and the history of salvation
Should draw more fully on the teaching of Scripture and highlight the vocation of the faithful in Christ and their obligation to bring forth fruit in charity for the life of the world
A rediscovery of symbolic consciousness and a more wholistic sacramental world view - both reveal the deeper mystery
Theology of Christian Living
Gaudium et Spes
proposes an integrated vision of Christian life, based upon a coherent synthesis of scriptural teachings, doctrinal beliefs, spiritual and liturgical life, and moral behavior
The Christian moral life flows from a genuine and vibrant spiritual life
Christian life is a faith-response to the gift-call of divine revelation (GS 15)
Moral theology shows the exalted vocation of the faithful in Christ. The moral life constitutes our response to this vocation (OT 16)
Morality and Evangelization
Evangelization is the essential and primary mission of the Church - to bring everyone to full union with Christ (LG 1)
Our missionary efforts are important
Faith in Jesus Christ explicates the inner demands of grace, shedding a new and fuller light upon what is human and reasonable (GS 11)
Brings people to the highest goods
Divine truth, as revealed in and by Christ becomes the norm of our lives. The highest norm for human life is divine law. God enabled man to participate in this law (DH 3)
Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partners in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery (GS 22)
There are those who do not know Christ, but seek God and follow their conscience and can obtain salvation (through Christ) (LG 16)
It can be in God's plan to have us evangelize and so bring others to a knowledge of their higher calling