Theological Ethics. Advanced Course II

Teacher(s)

Gaziaux Eric ;

Language

Français

Main themes

To reach the aims, the course will propose the study of a special topic or of an author (philosopher or theologian) through a specific problematic, with insistence on a speculative and fundamental approach.

Aims

By the end of the course, the student should be able: - to explain the results of a research on a fundamental ethical question connected with theology - to evaluate with a critical approach some philosophical and theological texts about morality.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Evaluation methods

Oral examination on the course or on the written work on the notion of natural law.

Content

2016-2017

The course will study the notion of natural law. It will expose its historical background, the position of St Thomas of Aquinas, the conciliar teaching and the post-conciliar developments on this notion. It will tackle the relevance of this concept, its strength and its limits, to develop a contemporary theological ethics.

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