Cuestiones de Teología Moral Fundamental: un Acercamiento a la Categoría Opción Fundamental en el Trabajo de Marciano Vidal

Abstract

An adequate study of christian moral theology requires a series of concepts and categories that allow the theologian a correct understanding of human moral life and a proper evaluation of human acts. Based on this principle, the main purpose of this monograph is to provide a systematic presentation of a category that plays a central role in post-conciliar moral theology, the so-called fundamental option. Although it is accepted that this category originates within psychology, in what it calls the psychology of decision and freedom, catholic moral theology has adopted it as a foundational category to discuss the moralization of human life. Thus, we find a variety of lines in which the fundamental option has been developed by theologians, especially after the Second Vatican Council, related to particular biblical categories, starting from theological anthropology. For this, we will rely on the development carried out by the theologian Marciano Vidal as the main author of our research.