Teologia moralna w czterdzieści lat po Soborze Watykańskim II

Abstract

The paper seeks to give a synthetic approach to the post-councillor revival of moral theology from the perspective of forty years that have passed since Vatican Council II. The author analyses first the calling to revival as it is contained in DFK 16, pointing to such aspects as: the need and understanding of revival; maintaining a learned character; a more profound approach to the Bible; the perspective of vocation – in the spirit of Christocentrism: the central character of love; morality in the service of salvation. Showing the basic features of revived moral theology, the author goes on to discuss the so-called anthropological turn. He has presented the concrete attributes – indicators of revival – along two complementary levels. Moral theology as a science about morality is taken in the spirit of personalism together with the enhancement of the communal dimension. Moral theology as a theological science today, however, takes into account above all the Christocentric (Christonomic), and also the Trinitarian and pneumatological re-orientation, completed by ecclesial-sacramental trend. All this points to the historical-salvific approach to Christian morality. The author believes that one should look at the revival of moral theology from the perspective of the encyclical Veritatis splendor, in which John Paul II stresses both achievements and confusing phenomena connected with the pursuit of this discipline. The encyclical is not a closure of post-councillor revival but rather an invitation to further perfection of moral theology.