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READING
ASSIGNMENTS: ThM
544
with questions for reflection
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WEEK_1;
WEEK_2;
WEEK_3;
WEEK_4;
WEEK_5;
WEEK_6;
WEEK_7;
WEEK_8;
WEEK_9;
WEEK_10;
WEEK_11;
WEEK_12;
WEEK_13;
WEEK_14;
WEEK_15
1.
OVERVIEW
OF CATHOLIC
TEACH.
ON SEX’TY,
CHASTITY,
MARRIAGE,
AND CELIBACY
REQUIRED
READING (Weeks 1
and 2):
1.
Selections from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church on marriage and sexual
morality. We will be considering these texts in both weeks 1 and 2.
Don't attempt a deep study of these texts this first time through: our goal is
to acquire a general overview of the Church's teaching on human sexuality.
We will be studying these texts in more detail in later sections of this course.
CREATION (§ 355-384)
FALL
(§ 385-421)
ETERNAL LIFE (§
1020-1060)
2.
Papal Encyclical
Lumen Fidei, (especially § 52-54)
Note how Pope Francis emphasizes the traditional goods of marriage,
especially fidelity, lifetime commitment, fertility, and complimentarity.
QUESTIONS
for
REFLECTION:
1. What does the Catechism of The Catholic Church mean by
the term “disordered”? What might be a better English translation of the Latin
term “inordinatio”?
2. What does Pope Benedict mean by “eros”? Does he regard
eros as a useful or positive concept for Christian moral and spiritual
theology?
SUPPLEMENTARY
(i.e not required)
READING:
1.
Selections from the
1962
Baltimore
Catechism on “vocation”. Note how marriage and
consecrated celibacy are portrayed and contrasted in this very popular
pre-Vatican II catechism.
Week 2
1b.
OVERVIEW
OF CATH.
TEACH.
(cont.)
1.
Selections from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church on marriage and sexual
morality. We will be considering these texts in both weeks 1 and 2.
Don't attempt a deep study of these texts this first time through: our goal is
to acquire a general overview of the Church's teaching on human sexuality.
We will be studying these texts in more detail in later sections of this course.
Sacrament of Matrimony (§ 1601-1666)
Ethics of Life (§ 2258-2330)
Sexuality and Chastity (§ 2331-2350)
Offenses Against Chastity (§ 2351-2356)
Homosexuality and Chastity (§ 2357-2359)
Marital Sexuality (§ 2360-2379)
Offenses Against Marriage (§ 2380-2400)
QUESTIONS
for REFLECTION:
How does the following statement from the Catechism of the
Catholic Church apply to the Church’s position on:
(1) contraception; and
(2) in
vitro fertilization?
§
2363. The
spouses’ union achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses
themselves and the transmission of life. These two meanings or values of
marriage cannot be separated without altering the couple’s spiritual life and
compromising the goods of marriage and the future of the family.
1) What are your reactions to the notion of original sin as recurrance of Distorted image: capacity/incapacity to
understand God as gift and possibility of making Self a gift
Same-Sex orientation - challenges and possibilities.
Limitations of Courage. - to be discussed in more detail later
Conclude discussions of sexual sin in Catechism - shift to present crisis [on
Thursday]
Definition of ends of marriage - not only of sexuality (as
formerly) - although meaning of sexuality implied on both "ends".
Relationships as unitive (for benefit of each), and Fruitful - reach out
creatively beyond context of dyad
McClymond (last sexual
perversion). To be discussed next week.
Week 3
2.
PRESENT
CRISIS
IN SEXUAL
MORALITY
A)
Models of Christian Modesty and Intimacy
READINGS:
Coleman, Introduction, pp. xiii-xxi. C.S. Lewis: 1, The Four Loves, ch.
2, “Eros”, The Screwtape Letters, selected letters. Hauerwas,
“Sex in Public” (course website).
The Last Sexual
Perversion – A Defense of Celibacy,
Michael J. McClymond
B)
Ministry, Friendship, and the Universal Need for Appropriate Boundaries
READINGS:
Healthy
Boundaries:Working Guidelines and Personal Strategies
Fr. Quinn Conners, O.Carm., Ph.D.Managing Ministerial Risks Fr. Michael
N. Kane.
C)
The Sexual Abuse Crisis
READINGS:
The John Jay Study; Jenkens, Pedophiles and Priests, selections,
(course website).
QUESTIONS:
How does the following statement from the Catechism of the Catholic
Church apply to the Church’s position on: (1) contraception; and (2) in
vitro fertilization?
2363 The spouses’
union achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses themselves
and the transmission of life. These two meanings or values of marriage cannot
be separated without altering the couple’s spiritual life and compromising the
goods of marriage and the future of the family.
Week
4
2.
PRESENT
CRISIS
IN SEXUAL
MORALITY
4)
THE
PRESENT
CRISIS
IN SEXUAL
MORALITY:
a Spiritual and Theological Appraisal
Look
at Moonstruck clip of Final Breakfast, describe Hauerwas on Heroism.
Discuss in detail on Wednesday of Week 4
A)
Models of Christian Modesty and Intimacy
2
hrs.: SEPT
16; SEPT
21.
READINGS:
Coleman, Introduction, pp. xiii-xxi. C.S. Lewis: 1, The Four Loves, ch.
2, “Eros”, The Screwtape Letters, selected letters. Hauerwas,
“Sex in Public” (course website).
B)
Ministry, Friendship, and the Universal Need for Appropriate Boundaries
2
hrs.: SEPT.
21; SEPT.
23.
2) ETHICAL
DECISION-MAKING
AND CATHOLIC
MORAL
PRINCIPLES
4
hrs.
(including video segments): SEPT.
7, SEPT.
9, SEPT.
14.
READINGS:
Pope John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor (course website); “Dignitatis
Humanae and the Catholic Human Rights ‘Revolution’”, Coleman, ch. 1 pp.
1-42; Grisez, selections (course website)
3) THE
HISTORY
AND DEVELOPMENT
OF CATHOLIC
TEACHING
ON HUMAN
SEXUALITY,
CHASTITY,
MARRIAGE,
AND CELIBACY
A)
The Early
and Medieval Church.
Marriage as Sacrament
1
hr.: SEPT.
16..
READINGS:
Peter Brown, The Body and Society, selections, (course website). Coleman,
ch. 1 pp. 42-54.
B)
The Modern
Church.
Sexuality and Sacramentality
1
hr.: SEPT.
16..
READINGS:
Casti Connubii, Gaudium et Spes, Humanae Vitae,
Familiaris Consortio (course website).
5) AN
INTRODUCTION
TO THE “THEOLOGY
OF THE BODY”
2
hrs.: OCT.
5.
Readings:
Selections from Pope John Paul II, Catechesis on Genesis and
Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount (course website). Coleman, ch. 2.
6) HUMAN
SEXUALITY
FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE
OF THE BEHAVIORAL
SCIENCES:
Developmental Sexuality; Sexual Maturity; and Impairment of the Will.
Presentation by
Jane Goerss
Ph.D., (forensic
psychologist),
on psychopathy and assessing the risk of violence.
3
hrs.: OCT.
7; OCT.
12.
READINGS:
DSM IV-R on Relevant Psychopathology (course website)
7) THE
MARRIAGE
COVENANT
A)
Theology of
Marriage: Sacramental and Canonical Aspects.
1
hr.: OCT
14.
READINGS:
Pope John Paul II: God the Author of Marriage. The Code of Canon Law,
selections (course website)
B)
Caring for troubled marriages: Divorce and remarriage: special pastoral and
moral concerns.
2
hrs.: OCT
19; OCT
21.
READINGS:
Coleman, ch. 4. SCDF:
The Reception of
Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful; Vademecum
for Confessors.
8) FERTILITY
IN MARRIAGE
A)
The Physiology of
Fertility
2
hrs.: OCT
26.
B)
Catholic Moral
Teaching and the Practice of Contraception
1
hr.: OCT
28; NOV
4.
READINGS:
Pope Paul VI - Humanae Vitae; Pope John Paul II - Evagelium Vitae;
Familiaris Consortio (selected texts); Coleman, ch. 4.
C)
Natural Family
Planning, Methods and Resources
2
hrs.: NOV
2.
Presentation by
Debi Hoppe,
NFP (sympto-thermal)
Instructor.
9) TOWARDS
A COVENANT
THEOLOGY
OF CELIBACY
2
hrs.: NOV
16.
Presentation by
Msgr. Craig Cox,
Vicar for Clergy,
Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
READINGS:
SCDF: Declaration on certain questions concerning sexual ethics (Persona
Humana). Pope John Paul II, The Theology of Marriage and Celibacy,
selections, (course website). Coleman, ch. 6-7.
10) A
PASTORAL
APPROACH
TO HOMOSEXUALITY
2
hrs.: NOV
30.
READINGS:
Coleman, ch. 5 & 9; SCDF: On The Pastoral Care of the Homosexual Person.
11)
COMMON
BIOETHICAL
DILEMMAS
IN MARRIAGE
A)
Artificial
Insemination, In vitro fertilization; Embryo Adoption
1
hr.: DEC
2.
READINGS:
Pope John Paul II, Evagelium Vitae; SCDF, Instruction on Respect for
Human Life (Donum Vitae), Coleman, ch. 8.
B)
HIV/AIDS; Abortion
1
hr.: DEC
7.
C)
Finding Christ at
the end of life
1
hr.: DEC
7.
READINGS:
Declaration on Euthanasia, (Jura et Bona)
WEEK 5
WEEK
5:
February 11, 2008
5.
ECCLESIASTICAL
LEADERSHIP
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDANCE:
Part 1
WEEK 6
WEEK
6:
February 17, 2008
6.
CONTEMPLATIVE
EXEGESIS
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDANCE
WEEK 7
WEEK
7:
February 24, 2008
7a.
CHRISTIAN
ASCETICS
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDES
(Part 1)
EARLY
Abbas and Ammas
WEEK 8
7b.
CHRISTIAN
ASCETICS
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDES
(Part 2)
Evagrius Ponticus
WEEK 9
7c.
CHRISTIAN
ASCETICS
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDES
(Part 3)
Evagrius Ponticus and John
Cassian
WEEK 10
8.
SPIRITUAL
DIRECTION as
MUTUAL
SERVICE:
Models of Spiritual
Guidance in Ascetical Communities
WEEK 11
9.
EARLY
MANUALS
of
SPIRITUAL
(SELF-)
DIRECTION
WEEK 12
10.
ECCLESIASTICAL
LEADERSHIP
as
SPIRITUAL
GUIDANCE:
Part 2
Basil, Gregory Nazianzen,
Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great
WEEK 13
11.
FROM
SECRET-KEEPER
to
SOUL
FRIEND
Classical, Patristic, and Medieval
Models of Friendship and Spiritual Guidance
WEEK 14
12.
CHARISMATIC
GUIDES and
UNCREATED
LIGHT
Liturgy and Prayer as Bases of Spiritual
Direction
WEEK 15
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