Stephen J Pope
Biographic Data
| ID | 879746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Pope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pope |
| SIGNATURE | POPE S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9180-4340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can Forgiving Ever Be a Moral Mistake? Complexifying a Central Commitment of the Christian Moral Life
This article proposes that Christian ethics is best understood as offering an affirmative answer to the question, ‘Can Forgiving Ever Be a Moral Mistake?’ It argues that the most adequate Christian account of forgiveness rests on three claims. First, that we are generally morally obligated to strive to forgive our truly repentant wrongdoers. Second, that in particular circumstances we should strive to forgive our unrepentant wrongdoers when pract…
The Roman Catholic conceptualisation of morality
Over the course of its history Catholicism has generated several different conceptions of morality. The early medieval church conceived morality primarily in terms of caritas and other virtues, the modern church generated a legalistic conception of morality, and the post-Vatican II church proposes a relational conception of morality. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The essence of morality concerns natural virtues and natu…
Christocentric Exemplarism and the Imitation of Jesus
This article examines the version of Christocentric exemplarism recently proposed by theologian Patrick Clark, whose Thomistic virtue ethics incorporates features of Linda Zagzebski's exemplarist moral theory. This article suggests that Clark and similar approaches to Christocentric virtue ethics would be better situated to appropriate Zagzebski's insights into exemplarity if it gave more prominence to the imitation of Jesus
Integral Human Development
This article traces the development of Catholic treatments of integral human development from Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio to the writings of Pope Francis on accompaniment. The author argues that community organizing is an important avenue for promoting the political dimension of accompaniment as understood in the teaching of Pope Francis.
Adversity, Conflict, Wisdom
The Use of Psychology in Ethics
Thomistic virtue ethics presents an account of the moral life that is primarily grounded in a metaphysical account of human nature and the human good. While some 'Thomistic psychologists’ have sought to incorporate insights from scientific work about the emotional and cognitive processes that influence the formation of human habits, their efforts tend only to confirm already-established Thomistic theses. This article explores how Thomistic virtue…
Johnson, Elizabeth. Ask the Beasts
David Fergusson, Creation
Poverty and Morality
This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might…
Reason and Natural Law
Theological ethics is drawn to natural law for two fundamental reasons. First, it advances a form of moral realism which affirms that moral standards are based in reality, and in this sense ‘objective’, rather than manufactured by human decisions. Second, some ethicists are attracted to natural law for its universal scope and its claim to apply to all human beings — rich as well as poor, conqueror as well as conquered, men as well as women. This …
Natural and Divine Law
Equal Regard" versus "Special Relations"? Reaffirming the Inclusiveness of Agape
Social Catholicism in Europe
The Recovery of Virtue
The Idea of Christian Charity
Agape and human nature
Aquinas on Almsgiving, Justice and Charity
The Order of Love and Recent Catholic Ethics
L'A. rehabilite la notion thomiste d' Ordre de la charite par une appropriation critique des notions de gradation naturelle de l'altruisme fondees sur la biologie. Cela peut constituer un correctif a certaines lacunes dans des etudes catholiques recentes sur la charite qui s'appuyaient exclusivement sur des sources personnalistes et existentialistes
Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love
The Order of Love and Recent Catholic Ethics
L'A. rehabilite la notion thomiste d' Ordre de la charite par une appropriation critique des notions de gradation naturelle de l'altruisme fondees sur la biologie. Cela peut constituer un correctif a certaines lacunes dans des etudes catholiques recentes sur la charite qui s'appuyaient exclusivement sur des sources personnalistes et existentialistes
Agape and human nature
Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love
Aquinas on Almsgiving, Justice and Charity
The Order of Love and Recent Catholic Ethics
L'A. rehabilite la notion thomiste d' Ordre de la charite par une appropriation critique des notions de gradation naturelle de l'altruisme fondees sur la biologie. Cela peut constituer un correctif a certaines lacunes dans des etudes catholiques recentes sur la charite qui s'appuyaient exclusivement sur des sources personnalistes et existentialistes
Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love
The Idea of Christian Charity
Agape and human nature
The Recovery of Virtue
Social Catholicism in Europe
Equal Regard" versus "Special Relations"? Reaffirming the Inclusiveness of Agape
Natural and Divine Law
Reason and Natural Law
Theological ethics is drawn to natural law for two fundamental reasons. First, it advances a form of moral realism which affirms that moral standards are based in reality, and in this sense ‘objective’, rather than manufactured by human decisions. Second, some ethicists are attracted to natural law for its universal scope and its claim to apply to all human beings — rich as well as poor, conqueror as well as conquered, men as well as women. This …
Poverty and Morality
This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might…
Johnson, Elizabeth. Ask the Beasts
David Fergusson, Creation
The Use of Psychology in Ethics
Thomistic virtue ethics presents an account of the moral life that is primarily grounded in a metaphysical account of human nature and the human good. While some 'Thomistic psychologists’ have sought to incorporate insights from scientific work about the emotional and cognitive processes that influence the formation of human habits, their efforts tend only to confirm already-established Thomistic theses. This article explores how Thomistic virtue…
Integral Human Development
This article traces the development of Catholic treatments of integral human development from Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio to the writings of Pope Francis on accompaniment. The author argues that community organizing is an important avenue for promoting the political dimension of accompaniment as understood in the teaching of Pope Francis.
Adversity, Conflict, Wisdom
Christocentric Exemplarism and the Imitation of Jesus
This article examines the version of Christocentric exemplarism recently proposed by theologian Patrick Clark, whose Thomistic virtue ethics incorporates features of Linda Zagzebski's exemplarist moral theory. This article suggests that Clark and similar approaches to Christocentric virtue ethics would be better situated to appropriate Zagzebski's insights into exemplarity if it gave more prominence to the imitation of Jesus
The Roman Catholic conceptualisation of morality
Over the course of its history Catholicism has generated several different conceptions of morality. The early medieval church conceived morality primarily in terms of caritas and other virtues, the modern church generated a legalistic conception of morality, and the post-Vatican II church proposes a relational conception of morality. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The essence of morality concerns natural virtues and natu…
Can Forgiving Ever Be a Moral Mistake? Complexifying a Central Commitment of the Christian Moral Life
This article proposes that Christian ethics is best understood as offering an affirmative answer to the question, ‘Can Forgiving Ever Be a Moral Mistake?’ It argues that the most adequate Christian account of forgiveness rests on three claims. First, that we are generally morally obligated to strive to forgive our truly repentant wrongdoers. Second, that in particular circumstances we should strive to forgive our unrepentant wrongdoers when pract…
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