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When is Theological Ethics not Theological? Problems in the Czech Tradition of Moral Theology

Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2011

Abstract

The article questions real theological character of some streams of the older Czech moral theological thought which was closed in 1948 (beginning of the communist regime) and after 1989 never quoted or mentioned. It was a rationalistic neo-scholastic period of abstract philosophical theology.

The blind alleys of theology can be traced in the areas as: the Scripture and philosophical speculation; "good" deed being good only as resulting in one's eternal happiness; personal spiritual life and universally binding moral norms; moral norms and the church and state law; natural ethics; dependence of theology on the political situation; universal validity and particular character of catholic moral theology; moral and religious norms of acting; moral responsibility to one's conscience and ethical responsibility to heteronomous authority.