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[German Version] I. Concept – II. Moral Theology and Philosophical Ethics – III. Faith as a Guiding Perspective – IV. The Teaching Authority of the Church and Moral Theology – V. Structure and Disposition of the Subject Matter of Moral Theology – VI. History of Moral Theology I. Concept Moral theology (Lat. theologia moralis, “theological doctrine of morality” [Morality and Immorality]), occasionally used as a synonym for theological ethics (V), is the discipline of Catholic theology that reflects on the meaning of faith for conducting a goo…

[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Ethics – III. Islam I. Religious Studies The notion that birth can be understood, not as a “natural” but a “cultural” process includes, among other things, what we today call birth control. Whether and how a child is accepted into the framework of human society is, thus, not least the object of a – both socially (or religiously) and individually determined…