An Introduction to Catholic Ethics - Lucien Longtin

An Introduction to Catholic Ethics

By Lucien Longtin

  • Release Date: 2013-09-30
  • Genre: Christianity
Score: 2
2
From 92 Ratings

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This book introduces students to the fundamentals of Catholic moral theology. By presenting testimony from the lives of great Christians and many of the key concepts that inform the Catholic approach to morality, this book provides a framework for making authentic Christian choices.
 
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Reviews

  • Dumb book

    1
    By Brennan810
    This book is a huge waste of money and ruined my mood. I do not recommend for anyone to use this especially schools.
  • The manifesto for those who view themselves as “morally superior” to others

    1
    By Wintz_
    This book is not a open discussion like it tries to be, it’s got a clear motive and that is one of pushing outdated and questionable beliefs even for the time of its release. It also reads like it’s thinks it’s better than me, I just feel judged on a moral ground reading this book almost like I did something wrong by simply thinking differently. It’s a book designed to indoctrinate people into a set of beliefs. Well it doesn’t force you to believe a certain set of moral beliefs, it certainly lays a clear path for what the author thinks is the right set of moral beliefs to follow. It’s a awful book to read especially if made to by a teacher. This book does not achieve its goals of creating a open discussion on ethics and all that. I have never objected to reading a book before but this stands as the first. It isn’t even worth the gas you would use going to the library to go take it out and staring at the ceiling for a all of eternity is a better use and a more entertaining use of time. It’s not great, avoid at all costs.
  • Boring

    1
    By TheCommonReader
    This book was a hard read
  • Annoying and pretentious

    1
    By matei1rpm
    The whole book has a "better than thou" type of attitude. 1/10 not only because I had to read it for school
  • Cardinal Sin

    2
    By Cardinal Richeliu
    The reviews of this piece of literature are mostly true, by definition, true... true. By decree of the students' royal court, the highest of the high justice systems, we decree this as not ideal. I hereby humbly request that this piece of literature be defrocked, as the noblest Cardinal Theodore McCarick was. By the decree of the second highest, jcfinsta, thou shalt stay in purgatory. Pope Weinstein and jc may not be fullest in their intentions, for they are very nepotist in nature. Nepotism between them has caused a Great Schism between Archduke FranzzzzZ FerdinandeR and the Visigoth/Ostrogoths of the Middle Tribes. The middle Tribes, as a fine mississippi man once put it bluntly, may be orthopratic. Orthopraxy has a place in our society, as this piece of literature may presume. As a great man once said, "I am the danger." This book is dangerous. Books are dangerous, we must spread this news, this good news, this gospel. Horse will between the bars, of course. A cohort will ensue. Mississagua is the birthplace of Boombl4, but the civilar war ukraine is the residencyyyy of stewie2k, kennyS, and Boombl4. The council will decide this literature's fate. This is God's country.
  • Straight Cheeks

    1
    By bigdipper101
    The premice of this book is based on heresy. Simply terrible. Do not purchase or Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarick will defrock you.
  • Teacher of Theology and Philosophy

    5
    By Red Bastine
    In my 21 years of teaching high school theology and philosophy in a Jesuit institution, I’ve only found one textbook (I much prefer primary texts) I truly liked and it’s An Intro to Catholic Ethics. Longtin and Peach do an excellent job providing an accessible resource for students to understand the relationship between secular and Catholic ethics. They confront relativism as the chief obstacle to studying ethics and give appropriate credit to Aristotle, Kant, and the Utilitarians in shaping questions of virtue, intent and circumstances in the grand picture of human life. I would like to see a bit more enthusiasm for the difference the Catholic perspective makes. Nevertheless, the authors appreciate the nuance and deep connections Catholics make to secular thinkers. After all, what would Aquinas be without Aristotle? Readers will not find a “Catholics are completely right and secular thinkers are completely wrong” vibe coursing throughout the text. Instead, one finds important interplay and influence from secular thinkers without concluding ethics are merely personal opinion.
  • Terrible

    1
    By xfgfhkuyjh
    This book is boring never have a student read this
  • The single worst piece of literature I have ever read

    1
    By 09038279446
    Simply terrible.
  • 5
    By Ryan Lawlor
    Blat!

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