New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology

New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology offers a snapshot of how the new generation of Catholic moral theologians understands not only topics in the field, but the effects of their own identity and formation on their treatment of those topics. The distinctive contribution of this volume is the interweaving of three key concerns, all of which arise out of a critical self-reflection on the task of moral theology today: the character and adequacy of training and ongoing formation in the field of Catholic moral theology, the purpose and nature of teaching Catholic moral theology, and the fittingness of methodological debates with regard to the needs of the Christian life. Each essay makes a contribution to its specific area of interest-ranging from economic ethics, to Patristic rhetoric, to the nature and development of practical reasoning-while probing what exactly young Catholic moral theologians are doing, and how they can do what they do better.

William C. Mattison III is assistant professor of Theology at Mount St. Mary’s University. He received his doctorate in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2003.