Renewal of Moral theology after the Second Vatican Council (criticism of casuistry, Optatam totius 16, the relation between natural ethics and ethics built on Revelation, autonomous ethics, moral theology of faith) Sources of ethics: Old Testament (Decalogue, three types of ethos in the Old Testament) Sources of ethics: New Testament (Sermon on the mount, four motives of Jesus's ethics, Paul's ethics) History of moral theology (patristics, scholasticism, casuistry) Conscience (various phenomena described as conscience, Bible, the evolution of the teaching, division of conscience and its education) Law in general, natural law (the origin of the concept, Holy Scriptures, evolution in Christianity, natural law in society) Fault and sin (the perception of sin in the contemporary society, Bible, venial and mortal sins, deadly sins, sin against the Holy Spirit, sins calling to heaven)
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The goal of the course is to present the biblical foundations of the Christian ethics (moral theology), its history and basic concepts: conscience, natural law, sin, intention, optio fundamentalis etc. Attention will be given also to certain important trends such as the situational or autonomous ethics.
Students will gain conceptual apparatus and theoretical equipment necessary for solving practical questions of ethics.
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