Discernment in Practical Morality

Successful completion of this course earns 2.5 CEU's.

General Course Objectives

• Gain an understanding of just what is “Christian morality”
• Gain an appreciation for our response to the love of God in the moral life
• Grow in understanding our role in the work of the reign of God
• Learn what the reality of conscience is and the role it plays in that work
• Grow in appreciation for living with resurrection faith and Christian hope in the process of conversion
• Grow in our understanding of Christian moral responsibility

Course Materials

• No books required. All readings are online.

Course Structure and Highlights

• Week 1: Christian Morality and the Love of God
  • Explore what living the Christian life essentially means
  • Gain an understanding of Christian moral life as a response to the love of God
  • Gain an understanding of what the Christian moral life as life in the Spirit means
  • Gain understanding and appreciation for Christian moral life as sacramental life, particularly in the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist
• Week 2: Christian Morality and the Reign of God
  • Consider Christian convictions about the reign of God
  • Consider Christian moral life as active participation in Christ’s work building the reign of God
  • Gain an appreciation for our life in the present world that we inhabit toward building the reign of God
• Week 3: Conscience as Process
  • Consider conscience as the capacity for doing the right and good
  • Consider conscience as a process
  • Gain an appreciation for conscience as judgment
  • Gain an appreciation for conscience as sacred
• Week 4: Christian Morality and the Dynamics of Sin and Conversion
  • Understand what original sin and actual sin are
  • Gain an appreciation for what conversion means and its dynamics
  • Gain Appreciation of what resurrection faith means
  • Gain understanding of the dynamics of Christian hope in the process of conversion
• Week 5: Christian Morality and Social Responsibility
  • Gain appreciation for human dignity and where it comes from
  • Explore what human rights are and where they originate
  • Explore the meaning of economic justice
  • Gain an appreciation for “preferential love for the poor”

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