Learning outcomes of the curricular unit
Acquaint with the specificity of the Christian worldview and its importance to the current social and cultural environment.
- Provide a reflexion on manhood , his dignity and his ethical acting from the Christian doctrine perspective.
- Open up students' minds to plurality and contemporaneity, helping them to establish communicational bridges between Christian thought, religions, culture and spirituality, from a Christian doctrine perpective.
- Enable Catholic University law students to face more effectively the major cultural, ethical and spiritual issues of our time by means of a deeper understanding of religion in general, and of the Christian ethics in particular; having the Christian doctrine as a fundamental point of reference, students will be more qualified
- for a broader and deeper approach to religious, cultural and ethical issues behind Law.
Syllabus
1 - WORLDVIEW, RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY
1.1 - Concepts
1.2 - World view and religion
1.3 - Specificity of the Christian worldview
1.4 - Christianity and postmodernity
2 - ETHICS, CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE
2.1 - General Elements
2.2 - Originality of Christianity
2. 3 - Christianity and the cultural challenge
2.4 - Christianity and religious pluralism
3 - SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
3.1 - Nature and Principles
3.2 - Church Documents
3.3 - Basic Contents
4 - SPIRITUALITY OF THE XXI CENTURY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
4.1 - Traditional and alternative spiritualities
4.2 - Christian Spirituality
4.3 - Future Prospects
