THE METHODOLOGY OF MORALITY - THE MORALITY OF METHODOLOGY

The author of the article perceives methodology not so much as a way of teaching as a way of educating. He shows first the methodology of morality and moral theology, and then discusses the subject and object of methodology. The author concludes that teaching the moral rules today is a particularly challenging task. This is true especially of moral theology, which is sometimes referred to as a 'dangerous' theological discipline. This complexity and resulting problems are due to a particular attitude and needs of the agents receiving the moral texts, which has its foundations in the culture of thoughts and actions of many of our contemporaries. This attitude is in turn picked up by the teachers, leading to a lowering of the sensitivity to truth and a lower commitment to looking for the truth and communicating it. This situation calls for a renewal of this commitment to the truth of the faith and a renewal of the faithfulness to the Church preaching the truth, which needs to be manifested in the solicitude for a credibility of content and form.