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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

THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAW OF CHRIST 235Römelt take a broader perspective and consider Häring’s overallcontribution in the ambience of culture and the human sciencesrespectively. The pieces by Klaus Arntz and MarcianoVidal are of a more general nature still, broaching some keyquestions concerning the place of Häring in the history ofmoral theology. An attempt will now be made to sketch theessential content of each piece, trying to discern what it contributesto the question in hand.Raphael GallagherThe structure of Gallagher’s contribution concerning thesignificance of DGC for the renewal of moral theology is somewhatcomplex but the essential elements may be examinedunder the following headings: preliminary considerations concerningthe nature of moral theology, the genre of DGC, itsimmediate historical context, the main lines of the proposedrenewal, three specific central substantive themes and an evaluation.The preliminary considerations offered will be taken upagain in the third part of this piece in that they have an importwell beyond the specific case of DGC. Gallagher warns againstthe, not uncommon, projection of the term ‘moral theology’onto periods of history in which this discipline did not exist.Strictly speaking, ‘moral theology’ is the name of that specializedbranch of theology, as it emerges after the Council of Trent,which has as its specific goal the preparation of future confessorsfor their ministry (11).It is within this historical period that the genre ‘manual’(Handbuch, Lehrbuch) emerges and develops a characteristicmethod and style. Gallagher insists that he understands his taskas the study of DGC as a representative of this genre, withinthis understanding of moral theology. This is a complicatedquestion but it is not the same question as the relationshipbetween DGC and moral reflection within theology before theCouncil of Trent or after Vatican II. This latter question willalso be taken up below.Having surveyed the immediate historical context in whichDSG emerges, Gallagher offers a sketch of the main lines of therenewal it offers, having left open the question as to whether

THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAW OF CHRIST 235Römelt take a broader perspective and consider Häring’s overallcontribution in the ambience of culture and the human sciencesrespectively. The pieces by Klaus Arntz and MarcianoVidal are of a more general nature still, broaching some keyquestions concerning the place of Häring in the history ofmoral theology. An attempt will now be made to sketch theessential content of each piece, trying to discern what it contributesto the question in hand.Raphael GallagherThe structure of Gallagher’s contribution concerning thesignificance of DGC for the renewal of moral theology is somewhatcomplex but the essential elements may be examinedunder the following headings: preliminary considerations concerningthe nature of moral theology, the genre of DGC, itsimmediate historical context, the main lines of the proposedrenewal, three specific central substantive themes and an evaluation.The preliminary considerations offered will be taken upagain in the third part of this piece in that they have an importwell beyond the specific case of DGC. Gallagher warns againstthe, not uncommon, projection of the term ‘moral theology’onto periods of history in which this discipline did not exist.Strictly speaking, ‘moral theology’ is the name of that specializedbranch of theology, as it emerges after the Council of Trent,which has as its specific goal the preparation of future confessorsfor their ministry (11).It is within this historical period that the genre ‘manual’(Handbuch, Lehrbuch) emerges and develops a characteristicmethod and style. Gallagher insists that he understands his taskas the study of DGC as a representative of this genre, withinthis understanding of moral theology. This is a complicatedquestion but it is not the same question as the relationshipbetween DGC and moral reflection within theology before theCouncil of Trent or after Vatican II. This latter question willalso be taken up below.Having surveyed the immediate historical context in whichDSG emerges, Gallagher offers a sketch of the main lines of therenewal it offers, having left open the question as to whether

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