Cunha, Jorge2017-06-302017-06-302016CUNHA, Jorge Teixeira da - A misericórdia como critério moral e pastoral. Humanística e Teologia. ISSN 0870-080X. Tomo XXXVII, Fasc. 1 (2016), p. 159-172http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22374Jesus Christ is the face of divine mercy. His life and word are the origin of an ethical way that Christian sources show very clearly. Mercy is a principle to think in a new way moral and the law of our world. Choosing mercy as a starting point, moral theology can find renewed anthropological and ethical ideas voted to improve a rationality to sustain ecclesiastical and social regulation. Church sacramental praxis, criminal law and social justice could be very different if mercy was the basis of social theory.porMercy,Moral rigorismBenignitySacramental praxisCriminal lawSocial rightsJusticejournal article10.34632/humanisticaeteologia.2016.9334