TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hahn,Judith
AU  - Werner,Gunda
TI  - Mercy and Justice: A Challenge for Contemporary Theology
T2  - Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology Series
SN  - 9789004432529
AV  - KBU3090 .H346 2020 
U1  - 262.9/44 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Religion and law
KW  - Punishment (Canon law)
KW  - Penitentials
KW  - Penance (Canon law)
KW  - Mercy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Mercy and Justice: A Challenge for Contemporary Theology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Authors -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Sacrament of Penance: Liturgy and Law -- 1 The Reconciling Community: The Rite of Penance, Past and Present -- 2 ".equally a Judge and a Physician" - Questioning Canon 978 1 CIC/1983 from a Canonical and Pastoral Point of View -- Part 2: Penitence in Recent Church Teaching and Law -- 3 Merciful and Just? A Tension in Contemporary Semantics in the Doctrinal Regulations on the Sacrament of Penance -- 4 Fulfilling Mercy? Reconsidering the Jubilee Year Regulations on Penance and Reconciliation -- Part 3: Justice and Mercy: Can These Two Principles Be Reconciled? -- 5 Punishment and Reconciliation in this World and the Next: The Relationship between the Penitential Discipline of the Church and Reconciliation with God in the Twelfth Century -- 6 Justice and Mercy: Can they be Reconciled from a Systematic Point of View? -- 7 Misericordia, Benevolentia, Aequitas? Is there Room for Mercy in Canon Law? -- Part 4: Rethinking Penitence: What May We Learn from New Approaches to Forgiveness? -- 8 "...as we forgive those who trespass against us."? Aspects of a Theology of Forgiveness from a Protestant Perspective -- 9 Free from Burdens? Cultural and Social Aspects of the Concept of Reconciliation in Latin America -- 10 What Remains? Some Answers, and Yet More Questions -- Index
N2  - Mercy is omnipresent in Catholic debates. Mercy calls to consider an individual's needs and this conflicts with justice necessitating equal treatment for everyone. This is most apparent in the Sacrament of Penance, and other forms of penitence, forgiveness, and reconciliation where mercy both transcends and undermines justice
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