RT Article
T1 Theological Ethics and Moral Helplessness in the Anxious Present: Responsibility and Repair
JF Theological studies
VO 86
IS 1
SP 8
OP 32
A1 Ward, Kate 1983-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1918671133
AB Theological ethics has inadvertently contributed to the diminished autonomy many feel amid the anxieties of daily life. The shift from act-based ethics to totalizing ethics, and Vatican II’s universal call to social justice, urged Christians to work for earthly justice without offering tools for assessing one’s moral goodness when these projects fail. Virtue ethics that is attentive to moral luck can help combat moral helplessness by observing moral agency in action patterns that shape the self’s dispositions.
K1 Virtue Ethics
K1 Vatican II
K1 Social Justice
K1 Moral Theology
K1 Moral Luck
K1 moral helplessness
K1 Moral Agency
K1 Autonomy
DO 10.1177/00405639241309743