FINALITÀ
General Objective:
To gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a
human being, in light of each one own and all of humanity’s
relation to God. This will include each one own and God’s
relation to the whole cosmos and, in particular, to the world
in which we live.
ARGOMENTI
Course Outlines:
1. The creation of man and the universe: creatio ex nihilo;
sexual differentiation; original justice, the fall and humanity’s
ongoing history. 2. Theology and anthropology of Genesis 1
and 2 and other biblical texts: Man in relation to the cosmos,
the animals, the angels and God; man as a relational, interpersonal
being, whose ‘pre-destiny’ is Christ. 3. Man the
image of God (in Scripture and in Augustine), and Christ
the centre of all. 4. The theology of original sin in relation to
the theology of creation; creation-centred and redemptioncentred
views of the incarnation (Aquinas, Scotus et al.). 5.
Creation and evolution, Christian anthropology and modern
science. 6. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.”
TESTI
Textbook:
Haffner, Paul. 2010. Mystery of Creation. 2nd Rev. Edition.
Leominster: Gracewing.
Bibliography:
Haught, John. 2001. Responses to 101 Questions on God and
Evolution. Mahwah: Paulist Press; Hayes, Zachary. 2001. The
Gift of Being: A Theology of Creation. Collegeville: Michael
Glazier; John Paul II. 2006. Man and Woman He Created
Them: A Theology of the Body. Translation, Introduction and
Index by M. Waldstein. Boston: Pauline Books and Media;
Ratzinger, Joseph. 1995. “In the Beginning”… Catholic
Understanding of Creation and the Fall. Grand Rapids: Wm.
B. Eerdmans; Sachs, John. 1991. The Christian Vision of
Humanity: Basic Christian Anthropology. Collegeville: Michael
Glazier; Schönborn, Christoph. 2007. Chance or Purpose?
Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith. San Francisco:
Ignatius Press; Vatican Council II. 1965. Gaudium et Spes:
Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
Vatican City: LEV; West, Christopher. 2003. Theology of the
Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II’s ‘Gospel of the
Body’. Leominster: Gracewing; Wiley, Tatha. 2002. Original
Sin: Origins, Developments and Contemporary Meaning.
Mahwah: Paulist Press.