Dogmatic Theology - Charitology WT-SOP-TDC
Course content:
1. The notion and division of grace
2. Grace in the biblical revelation
3. Gnostic and Pelagian errors (response of the Church’s Magisterium)
4. Fathers’ and Doctors of the Church’s teaching about grace
5. Errors of Protestantism and their influence on Baius, Jansenius, and Quesnel
6. Free and supernatural character of grace in the historic tradition of the Church
7. Grace and free will ((Congregationes de Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae)
8. Contemporary perspectives on the teaching about grace
9. Grace in the life of a sinner (the existence and nature of actual grace)
10. The Council of Trent’s definition of justification (sanctifying grace)
11. Nature, features, causes and results (aspects) of justification
12. Gifts received in justification (faith, hope, love)
13. Grace in the life of a justified human
14. Conditions and the object of a meritorious act
15. Universality of the free distribution of grace.
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
Subject level
(in Polish) Punkty ECTS
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Type of subject
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Learning outcomes
Familiarizing with the issues of the justification of sinful man and giving him supernatural gifts, particularly sactifying grace, gifts of the Holy Spirit and the theological virues.
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods:
Oral examinations
Active participation in lectures based on the knowledge of the reading list.
Bibliography
- W. Granat, Catholic Dogmatics, vol.5: On God’s grace grantem by Christ the Redemptor, Lublin 1959.
- C. Baumgartner, Christ’s grace, in: The mystery of Christ, B. Bejze ed., Poznań-Warszawa-Lublin 1969, s. 311-566.
- R. Guardini, The world and a person: attempts to approach the Christian research on a human, “Znak” 1969.
- A. Zuberbier, Realtion nature- preternatural character, Warszawa 1973.
- H. de Lubac, On nature and grace, Kraków 1986.
- A. Santorski, The mystery of grace, Warszawa 1988.
- Bradley Malkovsky, The role of Divine Grace in the soteriology of Śri Śankarācārya. Tl. 1, South Bend: berhard-Karls-Univ 1993,
- D. Oko, Grace and freedom. Grace in the Bible, Church teaching, and contemporary theology, Kraków 1997.
- Kevin Rai,The grace and freedom of Christ according to St. Thomas Aquinas: a new reading in the light of his theory of being, Pont. Univ. Urbaniana, Romae 1997,
- S. C. Napiórkowski, Justification of a sinner, Kraków 1998.
- James Kachappilly CST, Grace as the sanctifying selfgift of the Holy Spirit in the writings of Edward Schillebeeckx, Pont. Univ. Gregoriana, Romae 2002
- G. Greshake, Introduction to the doctrine of grace, “WAM”, Kraków 2005.
- Z. Kijas, Grace, in: Dogmatics, vol.4, E. Adamiak, A. Czaja, J. Majewski ed., Biblioteka “Więzi”, Warszawa 2007, p. 463-514.
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