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How important is the conscience for the Christian moral life? How should it be understood in relation to the teachings of the Bible and of church tradition? In this book, Matthew Levering surveys twentieth-century Catholic moral theology to construct an argument for keeping conscience firmly alongside prudence, charity, and the gifts of the Spirit—and for understanding it as something that must...

This book is both an intervention in the domain of Catholic moral theology and a short history of, or sourcebook to, twentieth-century developments. Twentieth-century Catholic moral theology was marked throughout by an “abuse of conscience.” It gave too expansive a place to conscience in the Christian moral life. By the 1950s, Catholic moral theology was poised to overcome this problem, only to fall even more fully into a new version of conscience-centered
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