Gustavo Irrazábal

• Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina

This article shows some aspects of the situation of Catholic Moral Theology more than fourty years after the Vatican Council II. The Council established a set of objectives for the renewal of Moral Theology, in order to overcome the methodological deficiencies of the post-tridentine manualistic. The next two decades were marked by a dispute between...

Se ha propuesto sustituir el concepto de "virtud' por el de "actitud", término que incluiría los aspectos positivos del primero, superando sus límites de orden antropológico y teológico, y expresando mejor la riqueza del sujeto moral. Este artículo procura mostrar que todavía no es prudente operar esta sustitución, ya que la doctrina tomista de la...

This research deals on the relationship between Christology and Moral Theology. First, it introduces recent history, marked by several Christocentric models: a) those from days before II Vatican Council, which attempted to draw a line far from neo scholastic moral theology, seeking for a more biblical and personalistic inspiration; b) post Vatican...

For some catholic moralists, even though pre-matrimonial intercourse is illicit in principle, it could be exceptionally otherwise, especially in the so called "limit situations". The present article, after showing the lack of precision with which these authors define and apply this concept, affirms that, when there is a real "limit situation", the...