Rethinking Cooperation With Evil
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Rethinking Cooperation with Evil
Rethinking Cooperation with Evil: A Virtue-Based Approach applies Thomistic virtue theory to today’s most challenging questions of cooperation with evil. For centuries, moralists have struggled to determine the conditions necessary to justify moral cooperation with evil. The English Jesuit Henry Davis even observed: “[T]here is no more difficult question than this in the whole range of Moral Theology.” This important book addresses this challenge by applying the virtue-based method of moral reasoning of St. Thomas Aquinas to issues of cooperation with evil. Those who pastor souls report frequently receiving questions from attentive believers about whether a particular human action inadvertently contributes to some moral evil. Examples of potentially immoral cooperation with evil include whether one may shop at a particular franchise known for its support of abortion, whether Catholics may attend civil marriages outside the Church, or whether an organization may submit to government mandates that health insurance include payment for immoral practices. Although recent moralists have tackled specific topics related to cooperation with evil, agreement on an overall common paradigm has not yet been reached. Rethinking Cooperation with Evil proposes a method for Christian believers and others to approach these questions from the foundation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and the magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church. This text provides both an overall method for how to understand the issue of cooperation, as well as practical counsel for specific cases. Rethinking Cooperation with Evil advances the theological conversation on this topic from both speculative and practical vantage points. To facilitate his argument, Connors utilizes historical analyses that contrast Aquinas’s method of moral reasoning with that of the casuist treatment of cooperation. Consequently, the book includes numerous case studies that will be of interest both to moral theologians and readers new to the topic.
Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 14, Special Issue 1
Author: Jana Bennett
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2025-05-08
Contents Veritatis Splendor Three Decades On: Shared Principles and Hidden Conflicts Jana Bennett and Alessandro Rovati A Ressourcement Encyclical: Veritatis Splendor and the Recovery of Christocentric Moral Theology Michael A. Wahl Seeds for an Encounter Ethics: The Fruit of Reading Veritatis Splendor Beyond a Post-Conciliar Binary Narrative Catherine Moon Veritatis Splendor and the Persistence of the Law-Conscience Binary in Catholic Moral Theology Nicholas Ogle The Pastoral Conversion of Moral Theology and “The Perspective of the Acting Person” in Veritatis Splendor Matthew Kuhner Amoris Laetitia Develops the Subjective Conscience from Veritatis Splendor Matthew P. Schneider Moral Law and Pastoral Praxis from Veritatis Splendor to the Magisterium of Francis Gustavo Irrazábal The Splendor of Freedom in Theory and Practice: The Complementary Moral Theologies of John Paul II and Francis Conor Kelly Divine Authority and Absolute Moral Norms Anthony Hollowell Veritatis Splendor After Thirty Years: Exposition and Critique Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler “He Himself Becomes a Living and Personal Law”: Veritatis Splendor, Eating Disorders, and Misguided Moralism Megan Heeder
The Family As Basic Social Unit
The Family as Basic Social Unit provides a theologically rooted account of the family's social roles and responsibilities. As a basic social unit, the family is both internally social and socially interdependent with other social communities. Reflecting on the family's internally social character, Schemenauer proposes that Catholic social teaching applies to family interactions. He analyzes household labor using papal teaching on work and sibling violence with more recent theological analysis of peacemaking, and he argues that families can complete works of mercy when they feed hungry and care for sick family members. In the second part of the volume, Schemenauer describes the social interdependence of families. He analyzes the relationship between families and the Church, civil society, the economy, and the state. Schemenauer proposes that the question for families is not whether to engage with other social communities but how to do so well. He explicitly highlights how consumer capitalism creates obstacles for families attempting to live as a basic social unit. Then, employing the categories of infused simplicity and moral cooperation, he provides a framework for discerning family engagement with broader society. Finally, Schemenauer analyzes the relationship between family commitments and social ministry. Working from the family outward, Schemenauer describes how family commitments can motivate broader social service, but then employs the example of families involved in the Catholic Worker Movement to reflect on the joys and dangers of balancing commitment to one's family with social ministry focused on the urgent needs of those outside of one's household.