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Acting on Principles, the product of over thirty years of teaching, gives a comprehensive overview of the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, placing it in dialogue with contemporary ethical theory and developments in Catholic theology since the Second Vatican Council. Suitable for students of ethics and moral theology, and general readers seeking Christian guidance in the formation of conscience and moral decision making, it presents the classical Catholic ethical tradition in a clear and lively style.
"Fr. Zagar offers us a study that is at once scholarly and
accessible to a wide readership. Faithful to the thought and method
of St. Thomas, Acting on Principles is a splendid resource
for teachers, students of moral theology, pastors, catechists, and
for all who seek to understand more fully the basis for moral
judgment. I am delighted to recommend to you this important
work!"
--Michael Sweeney, O.P.
President
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
"Acting on Principles is, in its essence, a profound
appreciation of the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, its
relevance to contemporary ethics in the light of the Second Vatican
Council, and the culmination of over thirty years of study,
teaching, and prayer. Father Zagar's lifetime of teaching renders
his writing lucid and accessible. This book will long serve as an
invaluable resource for seminarians, catechetical programs, and
independent study."
--Fr. Emmerich Vogt, O.P.
Prior Provincial
Western Dominican Province
"As the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council
approaches, today's hope is to find ways to blend, in creative
fidelity, the moments of continuity and discontinuity that were
endorsed by the Council. Janko Zagar's Acting on Principles,
which began to take shape in the first decades following the
Council, exemplifies the ongoing quest for a synthesis true both to
the Thomistic legacy and to a Conciliar sense of
personalism."
--Richard Schenk O.P.
Regent of Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Western Dominican Province
"Fr. Zagar offers us a study that is at once scholarly and
accessible to a wide readership. Faithful to the thought and method
of St. Thomas, Acting on Principles is a splendid resource
for teachers, students of moral theology, pastors, catechists, and
for all who seek to understand more fully the basis for moral
judgment. I am delighted to recommend to you this important
work!"
--Michael Sweeney, O.P.
President
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
"Acting on Principles is, in its essence, a profound
appreciation of the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, its
relevance to contemporary ethics in the light of the Second Vatican
Council, and the culmination of over thirty years of study,
teaching, and prayer. Father Zagar's lifetime of teaching renders
his writing lucid and accessible. This book will long serve as an
invaluable resource for seminarians, catechetical programs, and
independent study."
--Fr. Emmerich Vogt, O.P.
Prior Provincial
Western Dominican Province
"As the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council
approaches, today's hope is to find ways to blend, in creative
fidelity, the moments of continuity and discontinuity that were
endorsed by the Council. Janko Zagar's Acting on Principles,
which began to take shape in the first decades following the
Council, exemplifies the ongoing quest for a synthesis true both to
the Thomistic legacy and to a Conciliar sense of
personalism."
--Richard Schenk O.P.
Regent of Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Western Dominican Province
Fr. Janko Zagar, O.P., a Catholic priest of the Dominican Order, is Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology and former Academic Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is author of Bentham et la France, as well as numerous articles on moral theology and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.