Discernment in Practical MoralityNivel de curso: Básico
Al término satisfactorio del curso obtendrás 2.5 UEP's. Precione aquí para mayor información acerca de las UEP's.
Objetivos Generales del Curso
- 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
Materiales para el Curso
- Libro Requerido: Connors, Russell B., Jr. Christian Morality: In the Breath of God Loyola Press, 2001 ISBN: 0829417222; ISBN-13: 978-0829417227; ASIN: B00375MNCS
Estructura y Contenidos del Curso
- Semana 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
- Semana 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
- Semana 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
- Semana 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
- Semana 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”