Antropologia teologica 1RA0406

The student will gain a deeper understanding of how God originates the universe and the human being, with an intrinsic relationship to salvation in Jesus Christ. It covers the relationship between creation and science; the study of human person’s vocation in the created world; and theological reflections on ecology.

• Theology and anthropology of Genesis 1-2 and other biblical texts on creation: man in relation to the cosmos, the animals, the angels and God; man as a relational, inter-personal being, whose ‘pre-destiny’ is Christ; • Creatio ex nihilo; nature of the human person, sexual differentiation; Original justice, and humanity’s ongoing history; • Human being, the image of God (in Scripture and in Augustine), and Christ the centre of all; • Human being and Freedom (Will, Intellect); • Creation and evolution, Christian anthropology and modern science; • John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.”

Clifford, Anne M. 2011. “Creation,” in Systematic Theology Roman Catholic Perspectives. 2nd ed. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza – John P. Galvin, eds. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, p. 204-254; Hafffner, Paul. 2017. Mystery of Creation. rev edition. Leominster: Gracewing; Haught, John. 2001. Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution. Mahwah: Paulist Press; Hayes, Zachary. 2001. The Gift of Being: A Theology of Creation. Collegeville: Michael Glazier; Horan, Daniel P. 2019. Catholicity and Emerging Personhood: A Contemporary Theological Anthropology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books; John Paul II. 2006. Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. Translation, Introduction and Index by M. Waldstein. Boston: Pauline Books and Media; Kuttianimattathil, Jose. 2013. Theological Anthropology. Bangalore: Theological Publications; McFadyen, A. I. 1990. The Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Ratzinger, Joseph. 1995. “In the Beginning”… Catholic Understanding of Creation and the Fall. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Sachs, John. 1991. The Christian Vision of Humanity: Basic Christian Anthropology. Collegeville: Michael Glazier; Schmaus, Michael. 1969. Dogma: vol. 2 God and Creation. New York: Sheed and Ward; Schönborn, Christoph. 2007. Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith. San Francisco: Ignatius Press; Vatican Council II. 1965. Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Vatican City; West, Christopher. Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II’s ‘Gospel of the Body’. Leominster: Gracewing.

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