TIME PAST, TIME FUTURE offers a remarkably complete history of modern moral theology textbooks. Author John Gallagher surveys four centuries of origins and development to the church"s mode of present moral theology and the analyzes its collapse in the present half-century. What develops is a comprehensive reflection of what has indeed emerged as modern moral theology in the Catholic Church. Gallagher particularly emphasizes the traditions of the manuals of theology and offers exceptionally thorough evaluations and explanations for the changes reflected in modern moral theology manuals.