The Renewal of Moral

Theology

Historical
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
-is defined as the understanding of the
temporality of historical experience or how
past, present and future are thought to be
connected.
- Historical consciousness uses the
knowledge of what happened in the past
and has become history, as an element in
shaping the thoughts and actions that will
determine the future.
Definition
Ann Chinnery (2013) has suggested that nourishing a
feeling of caring for the past in an ethical
sense might encourage us to live historically, to
construct meaningful moral connections
between the past, the present, and the future in our
lives.
Jörn Rüsen, one of the most infl uential of historical
philosophers, described historical consciousness as
making sense of the past, where the “past is
interpreted for the sake of understanding the present
and anticipating the future.
Relation to Moral Theology
- Where an earlier moral theology considered some acts, one of this is historical consciousness in
moral theology. moral theology as the influence of historical consciousness makes headway in
the discipline and its perspective is broadened from natural law to the dignity of the human
person in different cultures.
- They need to learn ways of thinking about the past that will help them to orientate themselves in
time, bringing past,
present, and future into a relationship that enables them to cope with living their lives as temporal
beings.
-The historical event is a necessary feature of understanding the importance of past events; it is
sometimes a necessary feature of coming to an understanding of moral actions and seems to be a
part of the practical judgment as moral wisdom.
-The most important in historical consciousness of moral theology is doing a right thing isthe best
way to do something this give you a light of your future.
Sources of Moral Theology

1. SCRIPTURE: Authoritative books which record the Jewish and Christian experiences of
God's self-disclosures

2. TRADITION: The ways of thinking and living that are 'handed over" from one generation to
the next. Also a body of theological reflections.

3. REASON: The natural human capacity to know truth. The way we interpret and understand
Scripture, Tradition, and experience

4. EXPERIENCE: Our encounter with the world both past and present.
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