Pinckaers and Häring on Conscience
In 1967, two years after the end of the Second Vatican Council, Bernard Häring’s essay “The Normative Value of the Sermon on the Mount” appeared. Servais Pinckaers, too, is well known for his emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount. Prior to the Council, Häring and Pinckaers were both vocal opponents o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Journal of Moral Theology, Inc.
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Moral Theology |
| Online Access: | https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/11429-pinckaers-and-haring-on-conscience |
| Summary: | In 1967, two years after the end of the Second Vatican Council, Bernard Häring’s essay “The Normative Value of the Sermon on the Mount” appeared. Servais Pinckaers, too, is well known for his emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount. Prior to the Council, Häring and Pinckaers were both vocal opponents of the moral manualist tradition, and they both sought to place Christ at the center of Catholic moral theology. Even so, Häring and Pinckaers diverged in the decades following the Council. For the Redemptorist Häring, conscience retained the large role that it had in the manual tradition. By contrast, the Dominican Pinckaers insisted that conscience should receive the important but limited role that it possessed in Aquinas. The present essay explores the two streams of moral theology that emerged after the Council by comparing two essays on conscience by Pinckaers with portions of Häring’s Free and Faithful in Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-2851 2166-2118 |