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What Is and What Ought to Be: The Dialectic of Experience, Theology, and Church

What Is and What Ought to Be: The Dialectic of Experience, Theology, and Church

Lawler, Michael G.

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0826417043
ISBN13: 9780826417046
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 5 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The genesis of this book was sown in 1961 in a seminar on theological method under the guidance of Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan was convinced that something new was happening in history, and that a living theology required a new theological approach.
In this book, Michael Lawler is concerned with three characteristics of this new approach: that theology must be historical, empirical, and in interdisciplinary collaboration with the social sciences. The book thus explores the relationship between practical theology (which is concerned with the church as it is and as it ought to be) and sociology, and specifically the theological realities of sensus fidei and reception. The exploration is concretized by a consideration of the sociological data and theology of two Catholic moral doctrines: artificial contraception and divorce and remarriage without prior annulment.

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