On Conscience by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherIgnatius Press

ISBN-100935372482

ISBN-139780935372489

eBay Product ID (ePID)46916753

Product Key Features

TopicEthics, Christianity / Catholic, General, Christian Theology / Ethics

Book TitleOn Conscience

Publication Year2006

Number of Pages82 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreReligion, Psychology

AuthorJoseph Cardinal Ratzinger

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-014048

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal241/.1

SynopsisPrepared and co-published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, this book is a combination of two lengthy essays written by Cardinal Ratzinger and delivered in talks when he was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Both talks deal with the importance of conscience and its exercise in particular circumstances. Ratzinger's reflections show that contemporary debates over the nature of conscience have deep historical and philosophical roots. He says that a person is bound to act in accord with his conscience, but he makes it clear that there must be reliable, proven sources for the judgment of conscience in moral issues, other than the subjective reflections of each individual. The always unique and profound insights that the new Pope Benedict XVI brings to perennial problems reminds the reader of his strong warning before the recent Papal conclave of the great dangers today of the dictatorship of relativism.

LC Classification NumberBJ1471.B45 2005