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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Main Author: Matthew Levering
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Language:English
Published: The Journal of Moral Theology, Inc. 2019-05-01
Series:Journal of Moral Theology
Online Access:https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/11429-pinckaers-and-haring-on-conscience
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-68225e48d88e4c3ea9c4e616e7dc5d7c2023-10-20T17:34:24ZengThe Journal of Moral Theology, Inc.Journal of Moral Theology2166-28512166-21182019-05-018SI2Pinckaers and Häring on ConscienceMatthew LeveringIn 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.https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/11429-pinckaers-and-haring-on-conscience
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