Theological Ethics of Life: A New Volume by the Pontifical Academy for Life

Abstract

_Etica Teologica Della Vita: Scrittura, Tradizione, Sfide Pratiche_ (Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges) brings together the papers presented at an interdisciplinary study seminar organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life in October 2021. In this seminar, leading theologians and philosophers provided a series of substantive, targeted responses to a primary text (or testo base) that aimed to recast a “theological ethics of life” in light of Pope Francis’s more recent doctrinal. This essay highlights highlight three hermenutical premises of the book, provides an overview of the volume itself, and offers some final considerations about its potential impact upon the current theological discussion on an ethics of life inspired by Christian anthropology.