Autor: McCarthy, Michael

Buch: Workshop Rome 2001

Titel: Theological Reflection and Christian Renewal

Stichwort: Schritte einer praktischen Theologie

Kurzinhalt: Liste: Praxis theologischer Reflexion, philosophische, theologische Ethik; notwenige Quellen d. Einsicht für verantwortungsvolles Handeln, upper, lower blade

Textausschnitt: 1. Deeply living the Christian faith in our daily existence. True religious conversion demands sustained prayerfulness, asceticism, ...
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2. Prayerfully reflecting on the central Christian mysteries: the creation of the universe, the fall of Adam and Eve, ...
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3. Developing a credible theological anthropology based on the Trinitarian understanding of God: basing human dignity on our original creation in God's image and likeness; basing ...
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4. Articulating a Christian ethics, both existential and social, in response to two fundamental questions: a) How should I act and live as a mature and responsible Christian? b) How should we live together as a free and self-governing community of interdependent persons? ... it is useful to distinguish, but not to isolate, a theological ethics based on Hebrew and Christian scripture and tradition from a philosophical ethics that proceeds from the data of moral experience, through practical inquiry and reflection, to the articulation of moral principles and the assertion of evaluative judgments.
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Both theological and philosophical ethics are profoundly affected by the cultural transition from classicist assumptions to contemporary historical mindedness. Classicism conceives of ethics as a permanent human achievement, as a finite set of invariant moral truths with universal and timeless applicability. Historically minded moral inquirers, by contrast, recognize invariant moral precepts ...
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5) By their different paths, theological and philosophical ethics converge on the following concerns: ...
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While these ethical questions are humanly unavoidable, the practical answers they receive are deeply contested, not only between Christians and those who do not believe in Christ, but also within the Christian community itself. There are several sources of this striking moral disagreement.
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Responsible policy making and planning invariably depend on multiple sources of insight: the norms and principles of ethics, the institutional analysis and cultural criticism of the human sciences, the depth dimension of historical research, disinterested dialogue and debate among citizens and their political leaders, and on the particular set of circumstances in which human action really occurs. Egoistic, group and general bias can distort human inquiry and decision making at each of these interconnected levels. Discerning the presence of bias and critiquing the ideologies with which bias disguises itself are essential to understanding and correcting practical conflict.
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6. ... As Lonergan constantly emphasized, the human good is always concrete. It is in the lived concreteness of the home, ...
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7. Theological reflection operates like a scissors with an upper and lower blade. The upper blade is