Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Course Outline

De la Salle Santiago Zobel School
Course Outline
3rd Year Christian Living, Term2

“Christian Morality: Called to Follow Christ in True Freedom”

I. What is Good and Evil?
1. “Freedom and Responsibility”
(a) “Freedom and Determinism”
W. James’ “Dilemma of Determinism”
(b) Freedom in the Old and New Testament
1) Freedom and God’s Law
2) Jesus Calls us to True Freedom
(c) Growing in Freedom

II. The Morality of Human Acts:

1. Module 1: “Exercising Christian Conscience
(a) What is Human Conscience
(b) What Conscience is Not
(c) Conscience Morally Obliges
1) Subjective Dimension
2) Objective Dimension
(d) Formation of Conscience
1) Following your conscience
2) Forming a Christian Conscience
3) Mature Christian Conscience
(e) The Law and the Spirit of the Law

Contemporary Moral Issues

2. Module 2: Celebrating Life and Health- “the 5th Commandment.”
(a) “The Morality of Abortion”
“When Does Human Life Begin?”
(b) “ The Morality of Euthanasia”
“How Should a Christian Face Death?”
(c) “The Issue on Cloning and Stem Cell Technology”
“What is the Stand of the Catholic Church?”





Major Sources:
Catechism for Filipino Catholics Manila: Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines and Word & Life Publications, 2004.

Catechism of the Catholic Church Manila: Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines and Word & Life Publications, 1994.

Maturing in Christian Faith, the National Catechetical Directory of the Philippines. Manila ECERI, 1985.

Peschke, Karl H. SVD. Christian Ethics: Moral Theology in the Light of Vatican II, Volume 1: General Moral Theology. Manila: Divine Word Publications, 1996.




Basic Requirements per term:

Lecture Notebook
Textbook: Called to Follow Christ in True Freedom
5 Gospel Reflections
3-4 Quizzes
2 Long Tests
1 Major Project
2 Minor Projects
(Bible and Rosary – optional)

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