Summaries / Resúmenes - Studia Moralia

REVIEWS / RECENSIONES 485embargo la legitimidad del intento y la honestidad intelectual del creyentey del teólogo Böckle, al que analiza con objetividad y simpatía.Vale la pena transcribir aquí, para terminar, el juicio que emite el autoral final de su introducción: “No cabe duda de que nos encontramosante el pensamiento de un gran hombre, un gran teólogo, y una personaque, además de una gran fe, demostró poseer una preocupaciónreal por los problemas de sus hermanos los hombres, y no paró de trabajarhasta el último momento de su vida por encontrar una respuestaa todos ellos; siempre, a la luz de su fe en Cristo” (p. 20).NARCISO CAPPELLETTO, C.SS.R.Niemira, Artur, Religiosità e moralità. Vita morale come realizzazionedella fondazione cristica dell’uomo secondo B. Häring e D.Capone. Roma: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2003,pp. 308 (Tesi Gregoriana Serie Teologica 95).This carefully researched work is a doctorate thesis presented atthe Gregorian University. It reads well in this literary format. Thereis a clear exposition of the question to be researched; the religiousnature of morality in a christological mode, and the author uses twosubstantial sources to explore the question. The presentation of theresults of the research is logical. In the first part, containing fivechapters, the focus is on the general relation between religion andmorality. A second part, this time of four chapters, moves throughthe thought of Häring and Capone on how their exposition of beingand existing in Christ can be evaluated as a contribution to contemporarymoral theology. The sure guidance of Professor SergioBastianel can be detected in the precision and accuracy of the developedexposition of the research.Niemira is concerned throughout the work to demonstrate howthe surest foundation of Christian morality is an exposition of its religiouscharacter. Behind this pre-comprehension is the presuppositionthat the religious character is best expressed in terms of a christologicalformation of the human person. There may seem littleexcitement in dedicating a thesis to an exploration of this pre-comprehensionand presupposition, but there is an element of novelty inthis work that justifies its publication. Both Häring and Capone areprecursors of Vatican II, and in different ways among the most