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Ethics of the word : voices in the Catholic Church today / James F. Keenan.

by Keenan, James F.

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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.

Communication -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

Communication -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Christian ethics -- Catholic authors.

9780742599567 (cloth : alk. paper) :

0742599566 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780742599574 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0742599574 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xi, 186 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction: As I see and hear it -- Pt. I. A church in need of new ways of living the truth in love. Ethics inside the church : looking back, looking forward -- Proposing an ethics of the word -- Learning an ethics of the word -- Silence in an ethics of the word -- Pt. II. The humanity of our discourse. The human voice -- Memory -- Conscience -- A critical challenge : recovering Christian dialogue -- Modeling Christian dialogue : The First International Cross-cultural Discourse on Theological Ethics (Padova, Italy, July 2006) -- Pt. III. Forms of Christian discourse. Teaching -- Conversations -- Civil discourse -- Being called -- Taking vows -- Apologizing -- Appreciating the limits of language -- Reporting the truth to hurt another -- Lying and the obligation to get the story right -- Pt. IV. Words. Beautiful words, good words -- Words of death and gratitude -- Challenging words -- Words of life -- Words of greeting and farewell -- Pt. V. Faith, hope, and charity. The language of faith -- The language of hope -- The language of charity.

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