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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Introduction to the Second Edition | |
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| Key to Abbreviations of Biblical Books | |
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| Moral Theology: Its Nature, Purpose, and Biblical Foundation | |
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| The Moral Life--An Introductory Description | |
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| The Nature, Purpose, and Renewal of Moral Theology | |
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| Who We Are and Who We Are Meant to Be in the Light of Faith | |
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| Theology and Moral Theology | |
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| The Function and Purpose of Moral Theology | |
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| The Renewal of Moral Theology | |
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| Moral Theology and Holy Scripture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes for Chapter 1 | |
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| Human Dignity, Free Human Action, Virtue, and Conscience | |
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| Three Kinds of Human Dignity | |
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| Free Choice | |
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| The Significance of Human Action and the Meaning of Character | |
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| Virtue and Our Moral Life | |
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| Grisez on Virtue | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas on Virtue | |
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| Virtue-based Ethics and Principles-based Ethics | |
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| Conscience and Our Moral Life | |
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| Notes for Chapter 2 | |
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| The Natural Law and Moral Life | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Natural Law in St. Thomas Aquinas | |
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| The Basic Understanding of Law in the Summa Theologiae | |
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| Eternal Law | |
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| Natural Law: Its Central Meaning and Character | |
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| 'Primary' Precepts of Natural Law, Precepts 'Close to' Primary Precepts, and Other Precepts of Natural Law | |
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| St. Thomas and Ulpian's Definition of Natural Law | |
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| St. Thomas's Teaching on Natural Law in the Summa Contra Gentes | |
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| Natural Law, Vatican Council II, and Pope John Paul II | |
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| Natural Law and Vatican Council II | |
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| Natural Law in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II | |
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| Natural Law in the Thought of Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Joseph Boyle | |
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| The First Principle of Practical Reasoning and Its General Specifications | |
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| The First Principle of Morality and the Ideal of 'Integral Human Fulfillment' | |
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| The Specifications of the First Principle of Morality: The Modes of Responsibility | |
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| From Modes of Responsibility to Specific Moral Norms | |
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| Moral Priorities, Religion, and God | |
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| A Summary of the Natural Law Teaching of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | |
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| An Assessment of the Thought of Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle on Natural Law | |
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| Natural Law in the Thought of Martin Rhonheimer | |
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| Areas of Agreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | |
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| Areas of Disagreement Between Rhonheimer and Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle | |
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| Two Levels of Practical Reason: The Perceptive-Practical and the Descriptive-Reflexive | |
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| The Relationship Between Natural Law and Virtue | |
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| The Movement From the First or Common Principles of Natural Law to the 'Proximate' or 'Immediate' Conclusions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes for Chapter 3 | |
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| Moral Absolutes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Revisionist Rejection of Moral Absolutes | |
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| Clarifying the Terminology | |
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| Arguments to Support the Revisionists' Denial of Moral Absolutes | |
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| The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | |
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| The Nature of a Human Act as a Totality | |
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| The Historicity of Human Existence | |
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| A Critique of Revisionist Denial of Moral Absolutes | |
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| The 'Preference' Principle or Principle of 'Proportionate Good' | |
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| The Nature of a Human Act as a Whole or Totality | |
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| The Historicity of Human Existence and Moral Absolutes | |
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| A Defense of the Truth of Moral Absolutes | |
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| Notes for Chapter 4 | |
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| Appendix I To Chapter Four: St. Thomas and Moral Absolutes | |
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| Notes for Appendix I to Chapter Four | |
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| Appendix II To Chapter Four: Pope John Paul II and Moral Absolutes | |
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| The Moral Specification of Human Acts | |
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| The Criteria for Assessing the Moral Goodness or Badness of Human Acts | |
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| Moral Absolutes Protect the Inviolable Dignity of Human Persons and Point the Way Toward Fulfillment in Christ | |
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| The Incoherence of Ethical Theories Denying the Existence of Intrinsically Evil Acts and Absolute Moral Norms | |
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| The Infallibility of the Teaching Found in Veritatis Splendor | |
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| Sin and the Moral Life | |
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| The Core Meaning of Sin | |
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| The Biblical Understanding of Sin | |
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| The Understanding of Sin in the Catholic Theological Tradition | |
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| The Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | |
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| Biblical and Magisterial Sources for This Distinction | |
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| The Classical Theological Understanding of This Distinction | |
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| Fundamental Option Theories and the Distinction Between Mortal and Venial Sin | |
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| Fundamental Commitments, the Christian Way of Life, and Mortal Sin | |
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| The Role of Sin in Our Moral Lives: The Way of Sin to Death | |
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| Notes for Chapter 5 | |
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| Christian Faith and Our Moral Life | |
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| The Existential Context of Our Moral Life | |
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| Jesus, the Foundation of the Christian Moral Life | |
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| Our Baptismal Commitment and Personal Vocation | |
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| Christian Love, the Principle of Our Life in Christ | |
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| The Beatitudes, Specifying the Requirements of Christian Love | |
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| The Question of Specific Christian Moral Norms | |
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| The Practicality of the Christian Moral Life | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes for Chapter 6 | |
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| The Church as Moral Teacher | |
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| Teaching and Pastoral Authority Within the Church | |
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| Specific Moral Norms Infallibly Taught by the Magisterium | |
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| What Response Should Be Given to Moral Teachings of the Magisterium Proposed Authoritatively But Not Infallibly? | |
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| Notes for Chapter 7 | |
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| Christian Moral Life and John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor | |
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| Detailed Exposition of Pope John Paul II's Teaching | |
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| The Introduction and an Overview of the Document | |
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| Christ and the Answer to the Question About Morality | |
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| Principal Ideas Set Forth in Chapter One | |
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| The Religious and Existential Significance of the Young Man's Question | |
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| The Sovereignty of God Over the Moral Order | |
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| The Essential Link Between Obedience to the Commandments and Eternal Life | |
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| The 'Fulfillment' of the Law in Jesus; the Universal Call to Perfection | |
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| Moral Life, the Unity of the Church, and Revelation | |
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| The More-than-human Authority of the Magisterium on Moral Questions | |
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| Dionigi Tettamanzi's Analysis of Chapter One | |
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| The Christocentric Meaning of Our Moral Life | |
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| The Ecclesial Dimension of Christian Moral Life | |
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| The Church and the Discernment of Certain Tendencies in Present-day Moral Theology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Freedom and the Law | |
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| Conscience and the Truth | |
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| Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior | |
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| The Moral Act | |
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| Moral Good for the Life of the Church and of the World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Relationship Between Human Freedom and the Truth | |
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| The Intimate and Inseparable Unity of Faith and Morality | |
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| The Relationship Between Respect for Personal Dignity and Refusal to Engage in Intrinsically Evil Acts | |
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| The Absolute Need for God's Grace to Live a Morally Upright Life | |
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| The Service of Moral Theologians | |
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| The Responsibility of Bishops | |
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| Reactions to the Encyclical | |
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| The Selling-Jans Book: The Splendor of Accuracy | |
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| Richard McCormick's 'Some Early Reactions to Veritatis Splendor' and Martin Rhonheimer's Critique of McCormick | |
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| J. A. DiNoia's 'Veritatis Splendor: Moral Life as Transfigured Life' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes for Chapter 8 | |
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| Christian Moral Life and the Catechism of the Catholic Church | |
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| A Synopsis of the Catechism's Teaching on the Christian Moral Life | |
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| Essential Meaning of Christian Morality According to the Catechism | |
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| The Moral Life as an Endeavor on the Part of Human Persons to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Them to Be | |
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| Our Absolute Dependence Upon God to Enable Us to Become Fully the Beings He Wills Us to Be | |
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| The God-given Authority of the Church as Mother and Teacher | |
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| What We Must Do in Order to Become Fully the Beings God Wills Us to Be | |
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| Notes for Appendix | |
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| Index | |