After completing this course, you will be able to:
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describe the historical development of Christian ethics and the current debates;
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identify an ethical problem (from fundamental ethics or applied ethics), to describe its core features, and to systematically tackle it.
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A specialisation in theological ethics first involves that you improve your knowledge of the historical making of moral theology and theological ethics. This does not entail a simple iteration of well known positions just as Augustine’s, Thomas Aquinas’s or Luther’s ethics, rather it means a reconstruction of the intrinsic dynamics that led to the forming of theological ethics as we find it today. While analysing these positions you will encounter a range of systematic problems some of which will be dealt with in the second part of the course. Among these problems are: the relationship between God’s and human freedom, the particularity or universality of Christian ethics, the Proprium Christianum etc.
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You have acquaintance with theological ethics on an undergraduate level. |
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