In recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical
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In recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis splendor, this issue of the Josephinum Journal of Theology opens with five essays touching upon the theme of moral action, which was perhaps the central concern of the encyclical. In particular, Veritatis splendor responded to a post conciliar situation in which traditional moral doctrines, such as the teaching that certain human actions are intrinsically evil or the corresponding view that certain precepts of the natural law were universal and permanent, were subject to “an overall and systematic calling into question” (no. 4). These problematic aspects of post conciliar moral theology followed as the earlier moral manuals were abandoned, and as both revisionist and more tradition-minded thinkers sought to overcome perceived difficulties in moral theory. Among these perceived difficulties – in what was seen to be “the Catholic natural law tradition of Thomas Aquinas” – was a neglect of the distinctively personal level of reason and will due to the emphasis on our lower bodily “nature,” a corresponding reduction of what Aquinas understands as the properly moral order (of directing acts to ends) to the natural order, an emphasis on natural law at the expense of virtue and action theory, a reduction of practical reason to speculative reason, and an overly legalistic view of morality that was difficult to reconcile with the true Christian freedom of which the New Testament speaks.
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