Guiding Your Own Life On The Way Of The Lord Jesus: Liberated By The Profound Theologian, Germain Grisez

After seriously want to be liberated from simply accepting moral directives from family, from media, from "one's group", from one's culture -and willing to labor to understand what makes any action morally good or bad, Grisez, a lay moral theologian, will equip you to guide your own journey before and to God. Liberated, you will feel you are creating your own self, that your life is in your hands. Grisez is a sound, conservative Catholic, but creatively independent. Appealing only to reason at first, hence accessible to all people, he focuses on free choice and human fulfillment. A clear criterion of good (morally) and bad (morally) choices is provided. Aware we act immorally because of non-integrated feelings, he articulates ways to avoid doing so. These ways he then transforms for the Christian to follow the way of the Lord Jesus, love becoming the criterion of morally good choices-allowing God, who is love, to co-operate in our choices as you create yourself as a loving self.

After years of study to acquire an MA, Ph L, STL, and a Ph D I have read everything German Grisez has written; but I have read in computer script each of the 3 volumes (each well over 900 pages) of his The Way of the Lord Jesus, sent me for comment, I want to make him available to intelligent seekers of truth who may not have a philosophical or theological background. Teaching his college text for years has challenged me to discover ways to communicate his ideas in non-technical language, as has reaction from such readers to my work. Serious differences since Vatican II on moral/ethical issues has forced me to labor to understand and "get it right". Grisez made clear where truth lies and how to discover truth. I love searching for the truth and want to share my love and empower others to do the same, liberating people from living with a sense of "tabu" about moral issues, empowering them to create their selves as decent human beings, and loving selves.