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The Sources of Christian Ethics

By: Servais Pinckaers

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The Sources of Christian Ethics

By: Servais Pinckaers

First published in 1985 as Les sources de la morale chrétienne by University Press Fribourg, this work has been recognized by scholars worldwide as one of the most important books in the field of moral theology

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512

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CUA Press

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0813208181

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9780813208183

Passions and Virtue

By: Servais Pinckaers,Michael Sherwin

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Passions and Virtue

By: Servais Pinckaers,Michael Sherwin

This book, the last that noted moral theologian Servais Pinckaers, OP, wrote before his death, was conceived as a follow-up to his previous work Plaidoyer pour la vertu (An Appeal for Virtue) (2007) Pinckaers' aim in Passions and Virtue was to show the positive and essential role that our emotions play in the life of virtue. His purpose is part of a larger project of renewing moral theology, a theology too often experienced as an ethics of obligation rather than as a practical guide to living virtuously. To this end, Pinckaers sketches a positive psychology of the passions as found in the biblical tradition, in the writings of the Fathers of the Church, in pagan authors and, especially, in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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153

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CUA Press

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0813227518

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9780813227511

The Pursuit of Happiness--God's Way

Living the Beatitudes

By: Servais Pinckaers

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The Pursuit of Happiness--God's Way

Living the Beatitudes

By: Servais Pinckaers

When we think of happiness, we have to admit that our idea is at times worldly and self-centered. Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount showed us that true happiness will elude us, however, if we follow that kind of thinking. And, in the form of a series of promises and challenges, which we have come to know as the Beatitudes, He told us how to find perfect happiness--both here and in the hereafter. In a world that is capable of the best and the worst, we all have reason to be concerned about the very possibility of ever finding happiness in our lifetimes. The good news of the Gospel message is that we can. Even more, it teaches a way based not on rules and obligations so much as one founded on love, a way that depends upon and leads to the blessings of God Himself. These pages have been written in the conviction that every seeker should make the Sermon on the Mount the primary source of what will and will not make her happy. In His approach to the question, Jesus insists from the outset that we face up to the inevitable trials of life: poverty, tears, hunger and thirst, and shows us how we can find God--the source and object of our joy--in the midst of them.

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217

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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161097493X

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9781610974936

The Pinckaers Reader

Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology

By: Servais Pinckaers

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The Pinckaers Reader

Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology

By: Servais Pinckaers

The first collection of its kind available in any language, this volume features the twenty most significant essays written by Pinckaers since his highly praised Sources.

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0813213940

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The Pinckaers Reader

Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology

By: Servais Pinckaers

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Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology

By: Servais Pinckaers

The first collection of its kind available in any language, this volume features the twenty most significant essays written by Pinckaers since his highly praised Sources.

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The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom

By: Servais Pinckaers

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The Spiritualiity of Martyrdom

By: Servais Pinckaers

Since the publication in English of his masterwork, The Sources of Christian Ethics, Servais Pinckaers has become the preferred guide for English-speaking students of Catholic moral theology. This late Belgian Dominican has made themes such as Beatitude, happiness, virtue, and freedom for excellence standard features of classroom instruction in ethics, moral theology, and catechesis. Father Pinckaers's new directions in moral theology came none too soon to Anglo-American moral thought, which otherwise would have become submerged completely under the waves of one kind of relativism or another. Instead of enabling cheap escapes from moral truth, Father Pinckaers directs his students to the Sermon on the Mount. There they discover that those who suffer persecution for justice's sake are called blessed or happy. This suffering may even lead to death. The present volume completes Sources. It gives us a theological account of Christian martyrdom. Authentic martyrs testify to the highest meaning that God inscribes into the moral life. In a word, nothing should deter the Christian from choosing God. No one completes a Christian life without becoming, at least, a martyr for charity. -- from back cover.

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