<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Since Pope Franziskus, there is an approach between Protestant and Catholic theology exactly in the gaze on sexual-ethical questions. However, this “new” proximity stands in continuity with the Catholic thinking, because it is not simply about the appeal on a purely subjective and quite private conscience in the positions of Pope Franziskus and of renewed moral-theological teachings. Also Protestant theology always has faced fidelity in love and partnership under God’s assistance - within all human fragility and limitedness. More clearly than it, however, the theology in Catholic tradition has described exactly this solidity of Christian experience in the modes of obligation and objective bonding. Freedom and personal responsibility must be evaluated in many areas of modern society in a new manner today. In the ecological ethics the self-linkage to standards is discussed, which orientate the own lifestyle on the natural balance for to safeguard human life in community with the nature, for example. In the formation of love and family, it needs the freely approved relationship at objective social and biographical contexts, which enable succeeding relationship basically.</p></abstract>

Since Pope Franziskus, there is an approach between Protestant and Catholic theology exactly in the gaze on sexual-ethical questions. However, this “new” proximity stands in continuity with the Catholic thinking, because it is not simply about the appeal on a purely subjective and quite private conscience in the positions of Pope Franziskus and of renewed moral-theological teachings. Also Protestant theology always has faced fidelity in love and partnership under God’s assistance - within all human fragility and limitedness. More clearly than it, however, the theology in Catholic tradition has described exactly this solidity of Christian experience in the modes of obligation and objective bonding. Freedom and personal responsibility must be evaluated in many areas of modern society in a new manner today. In the ecological ethics the self-linkage to standards is discussed, which orientate the own lifestyle on the natural balance for to safeguard human life in community with the nature, for example. In the formation of love and family, it needs the freely approved relationship at objective social and biographical contexts, which enable succeeding relationship basically.

Joy of the Intimacy of Love. An Interpretation of the Developments in Contemporary Catholic Theology and the Theology for the Teaching Office in Ethics of Sexuality

Professor Dr. Josef Römelt, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Moraltheologie und Ethik an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt. Adresse: Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Erfurt, Nordhäuser Str. 61, D-99084 Erfurt

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Since Pope Franziskus, there is an approach between Protestant and Catholic theology exactly in the gaze on sexual-ethical questions. However, this “new”...

Joy of the Intimacy of Love. An Interpretation of the Developments in Contemporary Catholic Theology and the Theology for the Teaching Office in Ethics of Sexuality

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 358 - 371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0026

Keywords
Sexual ethics, Freedom, Responsibility, Duty, Conscience, Objectivity, Family, Partnership

© 2016 Josef Römelt, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Joy of the Intimacy of Love. An Interpretation of the Developments in Contemporary Catholic Theology and the Theology for the Teaching Office in Ethics of Sexuality

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 358 - 371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2016-0026

KeywordsSexual ethics, Freedom, Responsibility, Duty, Conscience, Objectivity, Family, Partnership

© 2016 Josef Römelt, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Sexual ethics, Freedom, Responsibility, Duty, Conscience, Objectivity, Family, Partnership