Conscience in Context

Stuart P. Chalmers

ISBN 10: 3034309953 / ISBN 13: 9783034309950

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2013, 2013

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In this book, the author presents a detailed study of the notion of conscience from the perspective of its historical development and existential environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight conscience's dignity and fallibility, as well as its dependence upon the context of virtue and grace, in order to develop as our capacity to perceive the truth in moral action. Starting from the premise that current moral theory is suffering from fragmentation, the author proposes that this fragmented outlook has affected the common understanding of conscience and is therefore in need of renewal, chiefly in terms of the reintegration of conscience with its proper setting. In order to explore this theory, he investigates how conscience has been understood over the centuries, particularly in the New Testament and during the Scholastic period, and analyses a number of important issues concerning its nature and function.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 470 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9783034309950

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conscience in Context
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034309953
• ISBN 13: 9783034309950
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 26D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 655 grams

About this title

Synopsis

In this book, the author presents a detailed study of the notion of conscience from the perspective of its historical development and existential environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight conscience’s dignity and fallibility, as well as its dependence upon the context of virtue and grace, in order to develop as our capacity to perceive the truth in moral action. Starting from the premise that current moral theory is suffering from fragmentation, the author proposes that this fragmented outlook has affected the common understanding of conscience and is therefore in need of renewal, chiefly in terms of the reintegration of conscience with its proper setting. In order to explore this theory, he investigates how conscience has been understood over the centuries, particularly in the New Testament and during the Scholastic period, and analyses a number of important issues concerning its nature and function.

About the Author

Stuart P. Chalmers is a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a parish priest in the city of Aberdeen and presently Vicar General of the Diocese. He holds a PhD in theology from the Pontifical University of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland.