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The term mercy is currently omnipresent in Catholic debates. It dominates at events such as the recent Family Synods and the Jubilee Years. At the same time, it poses a significant problem for cases dealing with sexual abuse. Mercy calls to consider an individual's needs and this conflicts with justice necessitating equal treatment for everyone. Mercy applies to the fallible individual deserving of punishment, but who is saved by grace. This is most apparent in the Sacrament of Penance and other forms of penitence, forgiveness, and reconciliation where mercy both transcends and undermines justice. This problem, widely ignored in church teaching, is addressed by Dirk Ansorge, James Dallen, Judith Hahn, Atria A. Larson, Sandra Lassak, Michael A. Nobel, Rosel Oehmen-Vieregge, Heike Springhart, and Gunda Werner.
Price: $137.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology
Publication Date:
18 June 2020
ISBN: 9789004426856
Format: Hardcover
Judith Hahn, Dr. theol. JCL, is Professor of Canon Law at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, Ruhr University Bochum. She has published extensively on legal theory and sociology of religious law, including Church Law in Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Gunda Werner, Dr. theol., is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Karl-Franzens University Graz and Chair of the Department for Systematic Theology and Liturgy at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at that same university. She has published comprehensively on the Sacrament of Penance, nineteenth-century Catholic theology and religious community formation in late modernity, including Die Freiheit der Vergebung (Pustet, 2016).
Gunda Werner, Dr. theol., is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Karl-Franzens University Graz and Chair of the Department for Systematic Theology and Liturgy at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at that same university. She has published comprehensively on the Sacrament of Penance, nineteenth-century Catholic theology and religious community formation in late modernity, including Die Freiheit der Vergebung (Pustet, 2016).