Moralische Norm und theologische Anthropologie
In contemporary moral theology the relationship between theology and anthropology is assuming greater importance. There is question as to how natural law is to be integrated within the horizon of revealed truth. Since the demands of natural law are discovered through direct insight into the « nature...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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1973
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| In: |
Gregorianum
Year: 1973, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 263-306 |
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| Summary: | In contemporary moral theology the relationship between theology and anthropology is assuming greater importance. There is question as to how natural law is to be integrated within the horizon of revealed truth. Since the demands of natural law are discovered through direct insight into the « nature of things », in logical independence of the fact of revelation, the problem arises how such an integration might succeed, so as to avoid the danger of hidden dualism. This is possible only if from the very start a positivistic and extrinsecist conception of revelation has been surmounted. It must be asked what specific self-awareness in the believer is inseparably linked with his decision of faith. The irrecusable anthropological nucleus of believed truths has to be revealed by means of immediate self-reflection and has to be explicitated step by step. And this has to be done both materially and formally. In this way a stock of specific, basic Christian attitudes is achieved, which enter as a sort of pre-decision into every concrete moral decision. They appear as an interpretative key, capable of integrating direct insight as to the « nature of things » into the decision of faith. At the same time, in these basic attitudes there are found principles of preference, permitting the compromise inevitably connected with every moral decision to be realised in a specifically Christian manner. In short: an inner transparence between the understanding of faith and natural understanding is called for, if the unification of the law of Christ with natural law, for the sake of a feasible moral « normativity », is to succeed. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Gregorianum
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