Conscience & Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities, and Institutional Responses

by Kristin E. Heyer and David Decosse

In this volume leading ethicists and theologians address "conscience," a term with loaded meaning and controversy in the Catholic Church in recent decades around issues like political participation, human sexuality, war and institutional violence, and theological dissent. Many essays in this challenging and far-ranging volume focus on the tension between the primacy of conscience (codified at Vatican II) and the processes and cultures of Catholic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626981442
• ISBN13: 9781626981447
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"