Conscience: Four Thomistic Treatments

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Conscience: Four Thomistic Treatments presents a series of distinct essays by the Thomistic scholars Benot-Henri Merkelbach Reginald Beaudouin and Michel Labourdette. Expertly compiled and translated by Matthew K. Minerd these essays confront the difficulty of assessing the proper locus of conscience in moral theologya difficulty as palpable today as when debates over casuistry and probabilism raged. Introduced by Minerds own expansive overview of conscience the volume comprises Merkelbachs Where Should We Place the Treatise on Conscience in Moral Theology? (1923) and Treatise on Conscience in General (1946); Labourdettes Comments on Conscience (1940s); and Beaudouins De Conscientia (1911). The seventh volume in the Thomist Tradition series Conscience: Four Thomistic Treatments offers a technically rigorous deeply insightful examination of a crucial aspect of moral theology.