Dogmatic Theology - Grace WT-FW-L
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
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Learning outcome code/codes
Learning outcomes
The lecture concerns the truth dealing with the Catholic teaching on grace, beginning with the biblical perspective, through the development of the dogma, to the contemporary points of view. The systematic part stresses the grace in a sinner’s life, justification and grace in justified man. It also covers the issue of meritorious acts and universality of the free distribution of grace.
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods:
Oral examinations.
Active participation in lecturers, 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.
- D. Oko, Grace and freedom. Grace in the Bible, Church teaching, and contemporary theology, Kraków 1997.
- S. C. Napiórkowski, Justification of a sinner, Kraków 1998.
- 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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