Obecny kryzys w teologii moralnej i sugestie jej odnowy

Abstract

Since the publication of Pope Paul V i’s Encyclical “Humane Vitae” in 1968 there has undoubtedly been a deep crisis in moral theology. French Episcopate calls it a disarray originating from the weakening of normative authority of Church unable to reach unanimity in certain matters within her own ranks. Some even talk about a silent but apparent “moral schism” within Church. Allusions to this situations can easily be found in John Paul IPs Encyclical “Veritatis Splendor” and in the reactions after its publication. It is therefore not surprising that the Council, Popes and theologians hastily seek the solutions. L. Melina believes that the paths of Catholic moral theology shortly after the Council are still the old paths of legalism and moral and philosophical successor of restrictions – modem ethics. And yet the “new wine” (“new”, which is the eternal and ultimate novelty of the Gospel, and not the “diversity” constantly changing, forever old and out-of-date) demands that the moralists create new wine-bags beyond the narrow frameworks of unending opposition between law and conscience, reason and faith, individual freedom and obeying the Magisterium.