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CONTENTS Foreword by Lisa Sowle Cahill ix Preface xvii PART I: FUNDAMENTAL MORAL THEOLOGY 1 1 Moral Theology Since Vatican II: Clarity or Chaos? 3 2 Dissent in the Church: Loyalty or Liability? 25 3 Moral Argument in Christian Ethics 47 4 The Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology 71 5 Bishops as Teachers, Scholars as Listeners 95 6 L'Affaire Curran 111 7 Pluralism in Moral Theology 131 8 Catholic Moral Theology: Is Pluralism Pathogenic 147 9 Matters of Free Theological Debate 163 10 Fundamental Freedom Revisited 171 11 Theology in the Public Forum 191 viii / Contents PART II: PRACTICAL AND PASTORAL QUESTIONS 209 12 The Consistent Ethic of Life: Is There a Historical Soft Underbelly? 211 13 Divorce, Remarriage, and the Sacraments 233 14 "A Clean Heart Create for Me, O God." Impact Questions on the Artificial Heart 255 15 Genetic Technology and Our Common Future 261 16 Sterilization: The Dilemma of Catholic Hospitals 273 17 Homosexuality as a Moral and Pastoral Problem 289 18 AIDS: The Shape of the Ethical Challenge 315 19 Therapy or Tampering? The Ethics of Reproductive Technology and the Development of Doctrine 329 20 If I Had Ten Things to Share with Physicians 353 21 Nutrition-Hydration: The New Euthanasia? 369 22 The Physician and Teenage Sexuality 389 Index 403 ...

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