{"product_id":"morality-the-catholic-view","title":"Morality: The Catholic View","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"As Alasdair MacIntyre notes in the preface, the work of Pinckaers attracted strong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand fully justified notice in this country with the publication in English of his \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSources of Christian Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e. As Pinckaers himself notes in the text, excellently translated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Michael Sherwin, the interest should in no way be limited to Roman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholics. \u003ci\u003eMorality \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the earlier book in an argument that is both lower and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eupper case 'catholic, ' and is accessible to readers and teachers outside the limited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecircle of moral theologians and academic ethicists. Pinckaers contends that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian morality is not first of all about obligations but about happiness, understanding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat the happiness of union with God is our natural destiny made possible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby grace. The Sermon on the Mount is at the center of an approach to morality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat turns on the distinction between 'freedom for excellence' and 'freedom of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindifference, ' the former understood as human flourishing and the latter as a 'neutral'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecapacity to choose between controversies. The proposal of Morality is thoroughly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChrist-centered, humanistic, and faithful to the magisterial teaching of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChurch. Warmly recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you want to have the experience of reflecting on Catholic morality as though\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou were reading about it for the first time, treat yourself to Father Servais\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinckaers' \u003ci\u003eMorality: The Catholic View\u003c\/i\u003e. He has recovered the classical view of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoral life as the quest for happiness and has presented it with disarming simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing us back to the Sermon on the Mount and Romans 12-15, the writings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Augustine and Aquinas, and the theme of natural law, he has freed those texts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom the layers of legalism which has hidden their liberating, spiritual powers for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoral living. By distinguishing freedom of indifference from freedom for excellence, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe has restored a wise vision of freedom. No one has shown better the role\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof virtues as building blocks for morality. Catechists need to read this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRev. Alfred McBride, O.Praem., Professor of Homilectics and Catechetics at Blessed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePope John XXIII Seminary, Weston, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Father Pinckaers has given us a masterful exposition of Christian living. The clarity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand brevity of his presentation - captured well by the translator - make this book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eideal for classroom and parish use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Readers will find the historical and systematic observations very informative.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomanus Cessario, St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Augustine's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51939210985703,"sku":"9781587315152","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_061a1713-01f5-44d4-81b0-dac04cbe1613.jpg?v=1775092412","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/morality-the-catholic-view","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}