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Prerequisite: TH201. There are certain ethical issues which address matters directly concerned with the procreation, nurture, and protection of human life and others which involve the taking of life. Religious and nonreligious writers are read who have shed ethical light on subjects such as abortion, eugenics, euthanasia, care of the handi- capped, pacifism and warfare, and the death penalty.
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Prerequisite: TH201. Studies the ways in which Christians of the first six centuries answered the question: 'How should one live ' Pays particular attention to the themes which emerge in their answers to this question; e.g., the imitation of Christ, holiness, and the virtues. While some New Testament texts is included in the reading,299 the primary focus is on the writings of the Church Fathers. The last section of the course studies the writ- ings of twentieth century ethicists and some contem- porary literature to see how these themes of holiness and virtue are developed in recent ethical reflection and discussion. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: TH201. Introduces students to the Christian understanding of the moral life through a critical exami- nation of some of the classical texts concerned with this issue. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor. TH305 Ethics: Contemporary Moral Issues (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: TH201. An inquiry into the process of deliber- ate and voluntary moral decision, into the ways in which persons assume and assess responsibility for such deci- sions, and into the formation of conscience and charac- ter. Practical applications are made to questions of peace and violence, resources and poverty, marriage and sexu- ality, education, medicine and politics. Endeavors, through discussion, to share values, insights, and experience with a view to growth in freedom and responsibility.
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Prerequisite: TH201. John Paul II is one of the most prolific popes in history and one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. This course explores his devel- opment as a philosopher and theologian, giving spe- cial focus to his distinctive and compelling view of the human person. Against that background, it examines his understanding of the nature and significance of the moral life in relation to persons and communities and in the context of the call of God to be fully human. Stu- dents study John Paul's insights about freedom, law, virtue, and grace; their relevance to his thinking about sex, marriage, and the family; reconciliation; abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment; work and Sabbath rest. Students also learn from critics of John Paul's moral theology who seek to build upon his work and contribute to a more wholly satisfying understanding of the moral life. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor. (Fall only)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. A Catholic theology of human sexual- ity and the marriage covenant including an analysis of such specific issues as pre- and extramarital sex, homo- sexuality, marital exclusivity and indissolubility, contra- ception, abortion, and responsible parenthood. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. What does faith have to do with poli- tics, economics and ethics in general Can we say or do anything that will move forward the debates about abortion and sexuality, friendship and the shape of the political commonweal In terms of theory, the course looks to Christian Scripture, philosophers and theolo- gians to study what has come to be known as "Catholic Social Teaching." This theory is then applied to contempo- rary ethical questions. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. An examination of the historical and contemporary debate about the place of religion in American democracy. The course thesis is that Chris- tians have always been important interlocutors in Ameri- can politics and continue to play a significant role in sustaining, criticizing, and transforming national and local political life. Students engage selections from sev- eral historical texts central to contemporary debates in political ethics, including Plato, Augustine, Calvin, Hobbes, the Puritans, and the framers of the American Constitution. The second half of the course treats the increasingly complicated place of religion in American political life from 1945 to 2005, where students read selections from Reinhold Niebuhr , John Rawls, Nicho- las Wolterstorff, Cornel West, Stanley Hauerwas, and William Cavanaugh. Students learn to differentiate abstract terms such as 'liberalism' and 'democracy,and identify the theological questions about freedom and power that these terms raise for Christians.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. How can we be good in America Throughout the twentieth century, Christian traditions answered this question in diverse and sometimes con- flicting ways as they wrestled with social problems in America, including the problem of America itself. Stu- dents investigate how these traditions responded to such challenges as individualism, nationalism, war, poverty, and racism and how, in the process, they shaped and were shaped by the American landscape. Counts toward American Studies and Catholic Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. American Catholic social thought is a collection of diverse notions and proposals for making American society conform to principles of social justice, elucidated by scripture, tradition, and religious,300 Theology social and economic experience. Attempts an historical understanding of trends and patterns in the Catholic encounter with social and economic developments in the United States such as emancipation, cosmopolitan conformism, immigration, temperance, industrializa- tion, the labor movement, the New Deal, civil rights, the 'Social Gospel' , women's rights, nuclear war, critiqueof liberal capitalism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: TH201. Spirituality is understood in its func- tional connotation, as referring to the world of the Ameri- can Catholic Church in its social, ethnographic, geo- graphical, and even political and economic dimensions and ramifications as they related to formal ecclesiastical life, sacramental practice, ritual activity, contemporary theologies, popular piety-common and persistent beliefs and practices, the line where religion shadows off into superstitions, attitudes toward death, conceptions of hell and visions of the after life, parish life, and regional contrasts among different parts of America. Accents what it was like to be an ordinary Catholic in diverse places at various points in American history. Counts toward American Studies and Catholic Studies minors.
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