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The Acting Person and Christian Moral Life Selected titles from the Moral Traditions Series James F. Keenan, SJ, series editor Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good Susanne M. DeCrane Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious Ethical Inquiry Diana Fritz Cates Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History Charles E. Curran The Church and Secularity: Two Stories of Liberal Society Robert Gascoigne The Critical Calling: Reflections on Moral Dilemmas since Vatican II Richard A. McCormick Defending Probabilism: The Moral Theology of Juan Caramuel Julia Fleming Family Ethics: Practices for Christians Julie Hanlon Rubio The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics David Hollenbach Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality Andrew Michael Flescher Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis Aaron L. Mackler John Cuthbert Ford, SJ: Moral Theologian at the End of the Manualist Era Eric Marcelo O. 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No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weaver, Darlene Fozard. The acting person and Christian moral life / Darlene Fozard Weaver. p. cm. — (Moral traditions series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-58901-772-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Christian ethics—Catholic authors. 2. Act (Philosophy) I. Title. BJ1249.W327 2011 241'.042—dc22 2011003843 Excerpts from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Copyright ’ 2009 by Marilynne Robinson. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from Silence by Shusaku Endo. Copyright ’ 1969 by Monumenta Nipponica. Reprinted by permission of Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., Peter Owen Ltd., and Chinomoku ’ 1966, The Heirs of Shusaku Endo. This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. 15 14 13 12 11 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First printing Printed in the United States of America For Joseph Daniel Weaver and Mary Ann Fozard This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Persons and Actions in Christian Ethics 5 2 Disruption of Proper Relation with God and Others: Sin and Sins 31 3 Intimacy with God and Self-Relation 65 4 Fidelity to God and Moral Acting 93 5 Truthfulness before God and Naming Moral Actions 131 6 Reconciliation in God and Christian Life 161 Bibliography 199 Index 211 This page intentionally left blank acknowledgments As is often the case in academic life, my work on this book was helped and enriched by so many, even as it was interrupted and delayed by much else. The Louisville Institute awarded me a 2001 summer grant that supported my research and writ- ing on sin; fellow summer-grant recipients provided helpful feedback and a col- legial environment for reflection. That work evolved into a paper for the Society of Christian Ethics and an article in the Journal of Religious Ethics, “Taking Sin Seriously.” I am grateful to the JRE for allowing me to draw on that material here in chapter 2. The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion also awarded me a 2003 summer grant that supported early work on chapter 4. I thank the Wabash Center and my workshop cohort for their wisdom, hospitality, and humor. I am grateful to remain in contact with a number of colleagues from our group. The Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ, welcomed me as a member-in-residence during a sabbatical leave from 2004 to 2005. Here, too, I found an intellectually rigorous and warm group of fellow members. The financial and collegial assistance I received allowed me to revise chapters already in progress and to research and draft chapter 5. I am grateful to have found several enduring conversation partners there. The New Wine, New Wineskins group of young moral theologians invited me to write a paper for their inaugural conference years ago, which was subsequently published with other conference papers; I gratefully ac- knowledge that chapter 3 is a revised and expanded version of that paper, “Intimacy with God and Self-Relation in the World.” I thank my fellow moral theologians for their insight and encouragement. I presented portions of chapter 6 at a meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, where I received valuable feedback and stimulating discussion of the work. I am grateful for the sabbatical leave that Villanova Univer- sity granted me and for various formal opportunities Villanova afforded to share work in progress. In all these settings and more, so many colleagues—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, theologians and philosophers—have offered feedback on work in progress. I give thanks for all their help. I thank Jim Keenan and Richard Brown for their interest in and support for my project. I appreciate the feedback two anonymous reviewers offered. I have tried to heed their advice. My graduate assistant Siobhan Riley helped with the editing and indexing of the manuscript. I am grateful for the friends whose companionship and conversation enrich my life. Jill Rollet and Brett Wilmot have shared many ix

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