TH 505 - Foundations of Moral Theology

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe what faith and reason reveal about the nature of human personhood, especially man as created in the image of God, as bodily and spiritual, and as social. 
• Explain how Christian moral teaching responds to the basic human question, “How does one attain happiness?” 
• In the light of metaphysical and moral realism, analyze the prevailing ideology of moral relativism, tracing its sources in Medieval nominalism and describing how it distorts human freedom. 
• Explain how baptismal insertion into new life in the Spirit of Jesus Christ transforms one interiorly, in terms of both the natural law and the New Law of grace. 
• Discuss how the virtues perfect the powers of the human soul, enabling the spontaneous embrace of the goods concretely indicated by the Ten Commandments. 
• Apply moral reasoning to analyze the fate of love and sexuality in a culture of death, showing the intrinsic connection between moral theology and Catholic social doctrine.