Cover -- Contents -- Photograph of Kevin Kelly -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 'It's Great to Be Alive': Kevin Kelly - A Brief Introduction to a Very Special Person -- Part One: Issues in Fundamental Moral Theology -- 1 The Way beyond Civilization: The Holy Spirit and Moral Theology -- 2 The World and Moral Theology -- 3 Conscience: Dictator or Guide? - Meta-Ethical and Biographical Reflections in the Light of a Humanist Concept of Conscience -- 4 Applying a Moral Principle -- 5 Dialogue as Tradition -- 6 Moral Theology and Doctrinal Change -- 7 The Good News in Moral Theology: Of Hospitality, Healing and Hope -- Part Two: Issues in Medical and Sexual Ethics -- 8 Embryo, Person and Pregnancy: A New Look at the Beginning of Life -- 9 The Moral Status of the Human Embryo according to Donum Vitae: Analysis of and Comment on Key Passages -- 10 On a Human Right to Die -- 11 Contraception and Sin -- 12 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Complementarity as a Foundational Sexual Principle in Catholic Sexual Ethics: The (Im)Morality of Homosexual Acts -- 13 Dissecting the Discourse: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Unions -- Part Three: Issues in Social and Political Ethics -- 14 'A Strange Sort of Freedom': HIV/AIDS and Moral Agency -- 15 Animal Ethics: Where Do We Go from Here? -- 16 Gott's Law: Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme -- 17 Same-Sex Relationships and the Common Good: A Theological Comment -- Part Four: Issues in Ecclesiology -- 18 Has Ecumenism a Future? -- 19 The Paradox of the Inclusive Church: Can Ecclesiology Live With Questions? -- 20 Church Leadership, Ethics and the Moral Rights of Priests -- 21 Kevin Kelly: Establishment Man? -- 22 From Rosaries to Rights - Towards an Integrated Catholicism -- Part Five: Kevin Kelly and the Interface of Moral and Pastoral Theology -- 23 Compassion as the Fundamental Basis of Morality.

24 Kevin Kelly: Priest and Moral Theologian -- 25 Kevin Kelly and Political Humility -- 26 Kevin T. Kelly and the Role of the Pastoral Moral Theologian -- 27 The Role of Personal Story in the Teaching of Moral Theology -- Bibliography of Kevin T. Kelly -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

This book is a tribute to Kevin Kelly, who has been one of the most influential British theologians for a number of decades. On its own merits, however, it is groundbreaking collection of essays on key themes, issues and concepts in contemporary moral theology and Christian ethics. The focus is on perspectives to inform moral debate and discernment in the future. The main themes covered are shown in the list of contents below. Several of the of the contributors are from the United States, three others live and work in Continental Europe and the rest are from various parts of the British Isles. Many of the authors are among the best known in their fields on both sides of the Atlantic.

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