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A Church That Can and Cannot Change

by John T. Noonan

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 16.3 x 23.8 x 2.8 cm

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Using concrete examples, John T. Noonan, Jr., demonstrates that the moral teaching of the Catholic Church has changed and continues to change without abandoning its foundational commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Specifically, Noonan looks at the profound transformations that have occurred over the centuries in Catholic moral teaching on freedom of conscience, lending for a profit, and slavery. He also offers a close examination of the evolution now in progress concerning divorce. Noonan perceives the Catholic Church to be a vigorous, living organism answering new questions with new answers, and enlarging the capacity of believers to learn, through experience and empathy, what love demands. He contends that the impetus to change comes from a variety of sources, including prayer, meditation on Scripture, new theological insights and analyses, the evolution of human institutions, and the examples and instruction given by persons of good will. Noonan states that the Church cannot change its commitment to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Given this absolute, how can the moral teaching of the Church change? Noonan finds this question unanswerable when asked in the abstract.But in the context of the specific facts and events he discusses in this book, an answer becomes clear. As our capacity to grasp the Gospel grows, so too, do our understanding and compassion grow. Noonan's incisive book, based on the Erasmus Lectures he delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2003, will challenge anyone interested in the history and future of the Catholic Church.
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A Church That Can and Cannot ChangeA Church That Can and Cannot Change

  • Author

    John T. Noonan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    January 2005

  • Weight

    577g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.8 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268036034

  • ISBN-10

    0268036039

  • Eden Code

    1148239

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