The Structure of Theological Revolutions —— How the Fight Over Birth Control Transformed American Catholicism

----- 神学革命的结构:节育的斗争如何改变美国天主教

ISBN: 9780190851408 出版年：2018 页码：233 Massa, Mark S SJ Oxford University Press

Drawing inspiration from Thomas Kuhn's classic work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Mark Massa argues that Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae caused a paradigm shift in American Catholic thought, one that has had far-reaching repercussions. How can theology-the study of God, whose nature is imagined to be eternal and unchanging- change over time? This is the essential question that The Structure of Theological Revolutions sets out to answer. Massa makes the controversial claim that Roman Catholic teaching on a range of important issues is considerably more provisional and arbitrary than many Catholics think.