Catholic Moral Theology and Social Ethics: A New Method

This book recasts our understanding of the disciplines of moral theology and social ethics by drawing from the wealth of the entire theological enterprise, including scripture, systematic theology, Catholic social teaching, and Ignatian spirituality.

Christina Astorga structures her new method in terms of vision, norm, and choice. Moral vision, shaped by culture, religion, scriptures, and systematic theology, is the wellspring form which morality flows. Moral norms, as grounded in Catholic social teaching, mediate moral vision toward choice and action. Directed by an integrated ethical methodology for conflict situations, moral choice which incarnates moral vision and norm is brought into the illumination of spiritual discernment.