Call for papers

Estudios Eclesiásticos

Faculty of Theology

Universidad Pontificia Comillas

(Monographic)

Ética Teológica en desarrollo: desafíos contemporáneos

PROGRAM

Coordinator of the monograph: Gabino Uríbarri Bilbao, SJ (guribarri@comillas.edu)
Language: Articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Instrucciones a los autores: Maximum length ten thousand words (abstract, keywords, notes and bibliography included). For other details (how to cite, etc.) consult the authors guidelines before writing your article.
Maximum number of articles to be published: eight (8)
Deadline for receipt of articles: September 30, 2024.
Peer review and revision dates: October and November 2024.
Publication date: February 2025.

Topic description

Pope Francis has opened a new era in moral theology. He confronts new questions by risking new answers from the wellspring of Tradition. His approach is characterized by giving serious answers to new situations in the field of social, personal, and fundamental morality, considering both global problems and the diversity of personal situations. In this international edition of the journal, dedicated to Theological Ethics in these times of change, we seek to deepen this line of inquiry. Such a study aims to recognize and explore with depth the challenges of contemporary culture for the reformulation and development of the discipline.

After Vatican II came the great moralists of the updated manuals: the precursor Bernhard Häring, two outstanding figures such as Josef Fuchs and Richard McCormick, and in the Ibero-American world thinkers such as Marciano Vidal, Tony Mifsud, or José Román Flecha. Each one, from his own context and to the extent of his possibilities, tackled the immense task of reformulating all areas of moral theology according to the doctrine of the Second Vatican Council.

What theological ethics do we need to respond to the new challenges of our time? How do we, as the present generation of moralists, contribute to this?

Key Words

Christian philosophy and morals
New topics / categories of moral theology
Development of the discipline
Reception of Pope Francis’s magisterium in moral theology
Moral theology and the Catholic Church in the abuse crisis
Development and problems of contemporary bioethics
Challenges to morality in new family models or situations
The foundations of moral theology in an age of relativism and postmodernity
Caring for the common home: ecology and climate emergency
New technologies and moral deliberation

Estudios Eclesiásticos is a journal that specializes in the area of theological research and information, understanding research as all work that, by contributing something new and properly grounded, can contribute to the scientific progress of Theology. It does not have, therefore, as its direct object the divulgation or the teaching of theology to a merely educated public that is not specially initiated in this discipline or interested in it in a particular way. With genuine research, it deals with current issues. Legitimate theological pluralism will be respected in communion with the ecclesiastical magisterium. Every theological tendency that has the right to exist in the Church may be expressed in the journal.

The contents of Estudios Eclesiásticos are indexed in the following databases, impact indexes, and evaluation systems and digital summaries: Scopus, IBZ Online, PASCAL, Francis, L’Année philologique, Old Testament Abstracts Online, ATLASerials, DIALOG Information Services, Religion Index One (RIO), Index Theologicus, ErihPlus, Carhus+, MIAR, CIRC, Latindex (catalog) and DIALNET.