Josef Fuchs (theologian)

Josef Fuchs SJ (1912–2005) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Jesuit priest of the 20th century.

The Reverend

Josef Fuchs

SJ
Born(1912-07-05)5 July 1912
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Died9 March 2005(2005-03-09) (aged 92)
Cologne, Germany
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Roman Catholic)
ChurchLatin Church
Ordained1937 (priest)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Münster
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-disciplineMoral theology
InstitutionsPontifical Gregorian University
Doctoral students
Influenced

Life

Born 5 July 1912, Josef Fuchs was a German Jesuit priest, who taught at the Gregorian University in Rome for almost thirty years. In the 1950s, Fuchs's Natural Law and De Castitate were the standard texts for moral theology courses.[1]

While serving on the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family, and Birth from 1963 to 1966, Fuchs experienced an intellectual conversion on two levels: his understanding on the issue of artificial means of birth control within marriage and his understanding of natural law, appropriating the theological anthropology of fellow Jesuit Karl Rahner. This set the stage for Fuchs' work to achieve in moral theology what Rahner had accomplished in systematic theology.

Fuchs was one of those who provided the foundations for the moral theology of the Second Vatican Council.[1] He chaired the commission's majority report, only to have it rejected by Pope Paul VI in the encyclical Humanae vitae. Fuchs' theology focuses mostly on moral objectivity.

Fuchs died in Cologne on 9 March 2005.[1]

Works (available in English)
  • Christian Morality: The Word Becomes Flesh
  • Moral Demands and Personal Obligations
  • Personal Responsibility and Christian Morality
gollark: I don't see any reason it would be physically impossible or something, but it would be nontrivial.
gollark: Not with existing technology. Maybe at some point.
gollark: Especially since I think legally they'd have to pay for/raise it and stuff.
gollark: I don't see a significant reason they should be obligated to have the child for you.
gollark: Analogously, I would say you should probably not be required to have someone grafted to your circulatory system and stuff for 9 months if this would keep them from an otherwise lethal disease or something. You maybe *should* morally, but this is a different thing (and I don't think that really applies in the fetus case, as it isn't much of a "person").

References
  1. Keenan, James F., "Champion of Conscience", America, 4 April 2005

Further reading
  • Graham, Mark E., Josef Fuchs on Natural Law
  • Traina, Cristina L. H., Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas


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