Living the Truth

Klaus Demmer, MSC is a member of the Order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. From 1970 to 2003 he was a professor of moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has published over twenty-five books on moral theology and is considered the foremost European moral theologian of his generation.

• Foreword Introduction Chapter OneThe Existential-Historical Form of ThoughtThe Theological-Anthropological Form of ThoughtGod's Action and Human Action Chapter TwoPerson and PersonalityStanding Firm in the TruthMoral Theology-A School of Truthfulness Chapter ThreeTruthfulness as the Basic Attitude of the Ethical PersonalityUntruthfulness as a Source of Personal DisintegrationThe Principle Features of a Metaphysics of Ethical Action Conclusion

In understanding Demmer better, we may also better understand ourselves and our horizons. -from the foreword by James F. Keenan, SJ In this book, English-speaking moral theologians for the first time have access to the very influential hermeneutical ethical method of one of Europe's foremost moral theologians... a veritable mind opener. -Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University