Introduction: On how and why theology changes -- Part I: 1968: The end of the Catholic Nineteenth Century in 1968 -- Part II: Paradigm Revolutions, 1960 to 1966: The structure of scientific revolutions ; "A period of crisis" -- Part III: Other Voices, Other Paradigms: Charles Curran and "Loyal dissent" : the first postclassicist natural law paradigm ; Germain Grisez and the "New natural law" ; Jean Porter and the historical project of robust realism ; Lisa Sowle Cahill and the search for a "Functionalist" paradigm of feminist global ethics -- Part IV: So Now What?: "In the beginning was the grab bag"
Summary
Drawing inspiration from Thomas Kuhn's classic work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Mark Massa argues that Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae caused a paradigm shift in American Catholic thought, one that has had far-reaching repercussions. How can theology-the study of God, whose nature is imagined to be eternal and unchanging- change over time? This is the essential question that The Structure of Theological Revolutions sets out to answer. Massa makes the controversial claim that Roman Catholic teaching on a range of important issues is considerably more provisional and arbitra
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 2, 2018)
