Free for Christ: Religious Obedience and Thomistic Moral Theology

Free for Christ: Religious Obedience and Thomistic Moral Theology
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Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9781645853923
ISBN-13 : 1645853926
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Book Synopsis Free for Christ: Religious Obedience and Thomistic Moral Theology by : Mother Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M.

Download or read book Free for Christ: Religious Obedience and Thomistic Moral Theology written by Mother Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M. and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the practice of obedience to God that makes it significant for human happiness and sanctity? And how should the obedience proper to vowed religious life be understood relative to the responsibilities of conscience and personal freedom? In the present day, religious obedience is often viewed either as a negative cramping of personal autonomy by an external authority, or as a positive submission to law that somehow assures one’s fidelity, but the common thread for both perspectives is a distinctly modern approach to obedience characterized by legalism and voluntarism. In Free for Christ, Mother Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M., proposes a different approach to religious obedience that foregrounds virtue-based moral agency rooted in metaphysics and the mystery of God, examining obedience not simply in relation to commands and laws but as a spiritual, philosophical, and theological reality—one that situates the human person in relation to God, the Church, and those others who share this religious life. Taking her starting point from Thomas Aquinas, Nutt examines obedience as a dimension of prudence and worship, that is, as a way that the human being can become relative to God as first source and final end, and thus as a way that the grace of Christ can take deeper root as a path to authentic freedom and interiority. From this ground of Thomistic metaphysics and ethics emerges a theological anthropology of obedience closely tied to Aquinas’s teaching on providence and religion.


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