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Book SynopsisGermain Grisez has been a leading voice in moral philosophy and theology since the Second Vatican Council. In this book, such major thinkers as John Finnis, Ralph McInerny, and William E. May consider issues in ethics, metaphysics, and politics that have been central to Grisez''s work.
Grisez''s reconsideration of the philosophical foundations of Christian moral teaching, seeking to eliminate both legalistic interpretation and theological dissent, has won the support of a number of leading Catholic moralists. In the past decade, moreover, many philosophers outside of Catholicism have weighed carefully Grisez''s alternatives to theories that have long dominated secular moral philosophy.
This book presents a broad spectrum of viewpoints on subjects ranging from contraception to capital punishment and considers such controversies as the scriptural basis of Grisez''s work his interpretations of Aquinas, and his new natural law theory. The collection includes not only contrib
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This volume of papers admirably succeeds in revealing the subtlety, power, and depth of Grisez's moral thoeolgy. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
