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July 13, 2005
Fundamental Option as a response to totalitarianism?
Amy Welborn asks a fascinating question about Moral Theology --
H as anyone ever studied the impact of Nazism and the war on Christian theology - not during, but after the fact? Michael took a class from Josef Fuchs, and he said that the moral theology of Fuchs, who had been a pastor in Germany during the War, struck him as very accomodationist...a "do what you can do" as long as your Fundamental Option is in the right direction (Fuchs being the father of much contemporary Catholic moral theology, as you can tell), and it seemed to him that this approach was very clearly reflective of Fuchs' position as pastor in that situation.I'd very much like to read about this. I don't really care for theology or philosophy per se, but I love intellectual history (which means that I don't care much about the gossip of who-was-a-student-of-whom or the lives of the philosophers).
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 13, 2005 11:44 AM