Moral Theology

This course introduces the moral life in the light of the Christian understanding of the human person and of our human destiny of beatitude in Christ. The main objectives are (1) to derive the moral teaching through an attention to human agency and responsibility, grounding it in experience, (2) to master some of the key concepts in the Church’s moral teaching; (3) to introduce virtue theory, and (4) to apply our understanding to a consideration of some of the major moral challenges in contemporary culture. This course prepares participants to better receive the following course on Catholic Social teaching, in order to provide the proper lens through which the third year special courses are engaged.

Instructor: Michael Sherwin, OP, Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum); former Chair of Fundamental Moral Theology, Director of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture, and Director of the Archives Pinckaers at University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Advisory Board Member of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford; Associate Editor, Nova et Vetera: International Theological Journal, English Edition.