Moral Theology of Social Life WT-EM-TMZ2
Substantive content:
• • The most important attitudes regarding the understanding of society life
• Origin, structure, nature and purpose of society life
• Covenant ethics as fundament of community ethics
• The Holy Trinity as pre-model of community life: ethical criteria of life in common
• Biblical vision of participation
• A note on Christians’ involvement in political life
• Human attitude towards the world: ambivalence of the world
• Human ecology principles
• The concept of culture (definitions), Christian reflection on culture in Poland
• Culture as a process of identity revealing (social, personal and cultural identity)
• Man as subject and place of culture making
• A Christian between the Church tradition and the world culture
• Faith and culture: modern challenges
• Relation of culture to morality and upbringing
• Economic and political globalism
• The role of the Church in the globalization process
• Fundaments of European morality in the Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Definition and range of meaning of the “bio-ethics” concept
• Range of meaning of the “therapeutic aim” concept
• The social context of medical ethics (definitions of health and illness)
• The necessary relationship between ethics and medicine (the danger of proceduralism)
• Auxiliary principles in medicine
• Bio-ethical convention
• Conscious consent
• Personalistic and religious aspect of illness
• Endangerment of life in its particular stages: pre-natal diagnostics, abortion, cloning, euthanasia
• Moral aspects of transplanting
• Moderation and responsible freedom
• Love as social virtue
• Truth as moral basis of social communication
• Mediating role of the truth
• Truth in theological aspect
• Moral aspects of using the media: broadcaster, recipient, tasks of authorities, propaganda language
• Modern context of freedom and Christian vision of liberation
• Freedom and responsibility, freedom through and for love
• The role of authority in community life
• Justice: biblical concept, essence and kinds of
• Justice and love
• Ownership and the principle of universal destination of goods
• Christian vision of work: unemployment as moral problem
• Human rights definition
• Christianity and human rights
• Ethics of economic life: free market and benefit in Christian assessment
• The state/Church relation
• Violence and war: the issues of just war
• The European Union: new unity or new division of the world?
Methods of assessment:
• The material divided into two parts, one credited with an oral exam, the other one with a written test
• Preparing and conducting classes (synopsis)
• Written paper on given subject
• Oral credit for chosen Church documents
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Bibliography
Recommended reading:
Alojzy Marcol (red.), Zaangażowanie chrześcijan w życiu społecznym [The involvement of Christians in society], Opole 1994
Jerzy Gocko, Ekonomia a moralność. Poszukiwania teologiczno-moralne [Economy and morality. Search for the theological and moral], Lublin 1996
J. Nagórny, Posłannictwo chrześcijan w świecie [The mission of Christians in the world], t. 1: Świat i wspólnota, Lublin 1997.
S. Olejnik, Powołanie chrześcijańskie [Christian vocation], t. 3: Teologia moralna życia społecznego [Moral Theology of social life], Włocławek 2000.
Jan Paweł II, Sollicitudo rei socialis
Deklaracja, Iura et bona (1980); Deklaracja, Quaestio de abortu (1974); Instrukcja, Donum vitae (1987)
Karta Pracowników Służby Zdrowia. Papieska Rada ds. Duszpasterstwa Służby Zdrowia, Watykan 1995.
Konwencja o ochronie praw człowieka i godności osoby ludzkiej wobec zastosowań biologii i medycyny. Konwencja o prawach człowieka i biomedycynie, w: Wybór Konwencji Rady Europy, Warszawa 1999.
Jarosław A. Sobkowiak, „Deklaracja moralności europejskiej” w Karcie Praw Podstawowych ["Declaration of European morality" in the Charter of Fundamental Rights
], STV 39(2001) nr 2, s. 157-175.
Jarosław A. Sobkowiak, Wychowanie do pracy czy wychowanie do bezrobocia? Teologicznomoralna ocena zjawiska bezrobocia w Polsce [Education for work and education to unemployment? Theological and moral assessment of the phenomenon of unemployment in Poland], STV 40(2002) nr 1, s. 101-120.
J.A. Sobkowiak, Spór o kształt świata w kontekście „nowego porządku moralnego” [The dispute over the shape of the world in the context of a "new moral order"], „Studia Aloisiana”. Ročenka Teologickej fakulty Trnavskej univerzity, 2003, 279-292.
J.A. Sobkowiak, Globalizm gospodarczy i polityczny – szansa czy zagrożenie pokoju? [Economic and political globalism - chance or threat to peace?], w: Pacem in terris. Dar Boga powierzony ludziom. Licheń 2003, 41-63.
J.A. Sobkowiak, Moralność globalna czy uniwersalna? Znaczenie hermeneutyki w dobie przemian [Global or universal morality? The importance of hermeneutics in an era of change], STV 42(2004) nr 1, 105-126.
Wojciech Surmiak, Opcja preferencyjna na rzecz ubogich wyrazem miłości społecznej [Preferential option for the poor expression of the love of social], Katowice 2009.
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