Summaries / Resúmenes - Studia Moralia

234 MARTIN MCKEEVER(2) a presentation of the salient content of each contribution onthis score and (3) a more personal evaluative reflection on thebroader questions raised by this study.Status quaestionisThe question guiding the reflection of the symposium isindicated in the sub-title of the book: Bernhard Häring’s contributionto the renewal of moral theology. Such a question, assome of the contributors are quick to point out, co-involves ahost of other questions, including the following: What is moraltheology? Are there different kinds of moral theology? Whichkind was prevalent at the time of Häring? Why did it needrenewal? What constitutes renewal in this discipline? Has itbeen successful? According to what criteria? What kind ofmoral theology is now prevalent? Does it need renewal? etc.Some of these questions were already being posed at the timeDGC was published, indeed before it was written. Others haveemerged or are in the process of emerging in the interveningperiod, most of all in the context of the Second Vatican Counciland its reception. This volume, then, may be understood, asexplained in the Preface (8), both as a revisiting of an importanttext and as an exploration of a range of underlying historicaland theological questions, some of which remain open. Thesubject matter is such that it necessarily involves us in a revisionof some of the most important questions faced by moraltheology in the last fifty years and invites us to consider someimportant questions for the years to come.ContentThese different levels of interest find expression in thethemes treated in the contributions, some of which are directlyfocused on DGC, while others focus on related questions of amore general nature. Thus the pieces by Raphael Gallagher andEberhard Schockenhoff consider in detail, though in interestinglydifferent perspectives, the content of the original workand its contribution to the renewal of moral theology, beforeand after Vatican II. The pieces by Bruno Hidber and Josef