UTHE105 Life in Christ: The Catechism and Moral Theology

This course is an introduction to Moral Theology, 

teaching in parallel with the third part of the Catechism.

This course is taught by Fr Dylan James at the Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.

Audio of lectures available on a Spotify playlist here

Word documents of each lecture are available in a Googledrive folder here

Aug 24th

1)    Introduction: What is Moral Theology?  What is the Catechism? What’s in this course?

Aug 26^th

2)    A History of Moral Theology

Aug 31^st

3)    The Sources of Moral Theology: Scripture, Tradition, Magisterium

Sept 2^nd  

4)    (a) What is Man?  The Image of God

(b)  Beatitude

Sept 7^th  

5)    (a) Freedom 

(b) Sin as a Perversion of the Quest for happiness 

Sept 9^th

6)    (a) The End doesn’t Justify the Means

(b)  Appendix: The Principle of Double Effect 

Sept 12^th  

7)    Conscience 

Sept 16^th   

8)    (a) The Passions

(b) Virtue 

Sept 21^st   

9)    Virtues & Vices: A look at some inter-relationships

Sept 23^rd  

10) Mortal and Venial Sin 

Sept 28^th

11) The Natural Moral Law 

Sept 30^th

12) The Natural Moral Law, continued

Oct 5^th

13) Quiz: See the list of 7 Catechism definitions to be memorized  

Oct 7^th

14) Review Class 

Oct 12^th

15) Law, Obligation, Epikeia, Probabilism

Oct 14^th

16) Midterm Exam 

Oct 26^th

17) Grace, Merit, and Justification 

Oct 28^th  

18) Society and The Common Good 

Nov 2^nd  

19) Civil Law, the Government, and the Common Good

Nov 4^th

20) The Ten Commandments: An Introduction & Summary; Dies Domini: The Lord’s Day

Nov 9^th   

21) Abortion, Euthanasia, Death Penalty 

Nov 11^th  

22) The Family and Marriage (Unity & Fertility)

Nov 16^th  

23) Divorce and Second Unions  

Nov 18^th

24) Self-Defence & Just War

 

Nov 30^th

25) Environmental Ethics

Dec 2^nd  

26) (a) Social Doctrine and Capitalism  

(b) Truth and Lying

Dec 7^th  

27) (a) Chasity: Integrating the Desires, not suppressing them

(b) The Battle for Purity

(c) Covetousness, Poverty and Purity of Desire

Dec 9^th

28) Review Class

 

CL701 Sexual Morality

This course is an introduction to Catholic Sexual Morality, as given by Fr Dylan James at the Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.

Audio is available on Spotify here

Word documents of lectures are available at a Googledrive folder here

 

Aug 22^nd

1)      Introduction; Sex and the New Evangelisation

Aug 25^th

2)      Chastity and Society: A historical look at the Judeo-Christian approach

Aug 29^th

3)      The Bible and Sexuality: An Overview (part 1)

Sept 1^st

4)      The Bible and Sexuality: An Overview (part 2)

Sept 8^th

5)      ‘Gender Ideology’ (i): An introduction to the problem 

Sept 12^th

6)      Gender (ii): Seminar Discussion of Holloway, Augustine, and Edith Stein 

Sept 15^th  

7)      The Ends of Sex and Marriage: Procreation, Union, Remedy for Concupiscence

Sept 19^th

8)      Virtue and Sex: Chastity (i)

Sept 22^nd    

9)      Virtue and Sex: Chastity (ii)

Sept 26^th

10)   Virtue and Sex: Chastity (iii)

Sept 29^th  

11)   Theology of the Body (i)

Oct 3^rd

12)   Theology of the Body (ii)

Oct 6^th

13)   Review session

Oct 10^th

14)   Midterm exam 

Oct 13^th

15)   Marriage and Civil Law & Counterfeit ‘Marriages’

Oct 24^th

16)   Homosexuality (i)

Oct 27^th

17)   Homosexuality [ii] 

Oct 31^st

18)   Responsible Parenthood: NFP or Contraception?

Nov 3^rd  

19)   Contraception (i): Janet Smith’s ‘Naturalist’ Argument of Contraception 

Nov 7^th

20)   Contraception (ii): Janet Smith’s ‘Naturalist’ Argument of Contraception 

Nov 10^th

21)   Contraception: Germain Grisez’s ‘Anti-Life Choice’ Argument against Contraception 

Nov 14^th

22)   Divorce, Remarriage (and Holy Communion): The situation pre-Amoris Laetitia

Nov 17^th

23)   Divorce, Remarriage (and Holy Communion): Amoris Laetitia: Breaking Tradition, or, A Strategy to implement the Tradition? Malta vs Poland

Nov 21^st   

24)   Masturbation and Pornography

Nov 28^th

25)   Education in Chaste Love

Dec 1^st

26)   Some Specific Sexual Issues

Dec 5^th

27)   Review session