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The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Many generous scholars have made corrections to this manuscript and directed me toward relevant sources. Matthew Minerd carefully reviewed the chapters on the moral manuals and Thomism, and his suggestions greatly strengthened these chapters. He also graciously permitted me to use his translation of Benoît-Henri Merkelbach, OP’s text. Nick Ogle read the whole manuscript at an early stage and offered encouragement and corrections. Reinhard Hütter, Joshua Steele, and Bill Mattison read
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