December 16, 2005

Books

How to Be Good

The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul IICharles E. CurranGeorgetown University Press, $26.95, 262 pp.

Darlene Fozard Weaver

Pope John Paul II’s legacy requires and deserves critically appreciative rumination for many generations to come. Charles Curran’s book is the first, and unexpectedly timely, systematic English treatment of John Paul’s moral theology. This comprehensive volume examines the pope’s use of Scripture and previous magisterial teaching, his Christology and eschatology, and hi (...)


 

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Darlene Fozard Weaver is an assistant professor of theology at Villanova University, where she teaches Christian ethics. She is the author of Self Love and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press).

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