Christ's Faithful People

Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP

Table of Contents

• Outline of the Course
• Class 1
• What is the nature of New Testament morality?
• Saint Paul’s moral thought: Christocentrism
• The Holy Spirit and the Theological Virtues in Pauline Morality
• Morality in the Fathers: The Sermon on the Mount
• Saint Augustine’s Homily on the Sermon on the Mount
• We ought to preach the Sermon on the Mount
• Class 2
• Problems in the reading Saint Thomas
• The Notion of Sacra Doctrina
• Why Saint Thomas wrote the Summa
• Chenu’s Misreading of the Summa
• The Divisions of the Summa
• A Continuation of the Historical Presentation: William of Ockham and Nominalism
• Class 3
• Ockham on liberty, God’s will, and law
• Prudence and conscience
• The modern moral manuals
• Azor’s Model Manual
• Different approaches to correct the problems
• Vatican II and moral theology
• The importance of the history of moral theology
• Dissent
• Class 4
• Ideologies rather than faith
• How should we teach moral theology?
• Moral theology versus theological ethics
• Norms and Invitations
• Scientific Nature of Moral Theology
• The method of moral theology
• Class 5
• Man mirrors God
• Ultimate End and the Aspiration for Happiness
• Why happiness if not egoistic
• The concept of finality in man and what it implies
• The natural desire to see God
• One end of man
• Class 6
• Pure Nature
• What we mean by happiness
• The qualities of happiness
• The attainment of beatitude
• Possible Objections about Saint Thomas’ notion of Beatitude
• Class 7
• Thomistic Contemplation
• Carmelite Contemplation
• Conclusion and Comparison
• The finality of the sexes
• Why did God create Eve?
• Class 8
• Spiritual Mission
• New Testament insights on the vocation of women
• The Vocation of Men
• The Treatise on Acts
• The Will
• The movements of a free action
• Class 9
• Deliberate choice
• Class 10
• Free Choice (continued)
• The formative importance of the parents for a child’s true liberty
• The Psychological Structure of the Human Act
• Nominalists versus Saint Thomas on liberty
• Grace and liberty
• Factors that limit the voluntariness of acts
• The moral qualification of human acts
• Class 11
• The sources of a moral act
• The supreme importance of the object
• The Intention
• Class 12
• Circumstances
• Differences between pagans and Christians regarding the finis operis
• Saint Thomas’s Schema on the moral qualification of acts
• The effects of acts; Double-effect
• Class 13
• Merit out of the response to God
• Proportionalism and Consequentialism
• Liberty and Obligation
• Class 14
• Obligation in moral growth
• Treatise on the Emotions
• The relationship of the emotions to the intellect
• Problems in the relationship between the emotions and the intellect and will
• Class 15
• The repression of emotions
• Types of repression and their healing
• Class 16
• The energy neurosis
• Deprivation Neurotics
• Conscience
• Class 17
• Conscience (continued)
• Modern Challenges to the traditional understanding of conscience
• The formation of conscience
• Class 18
• Conscience & Prudence
• Conscience and the superego
• The Divine Indwelling
• The practical influence of grace in the human life
• Class 19
• Erratum on the relationship of the nature and supernature
• Habits
• Entitative versus operative habits
• Class 20
• What virtue is
• The connection among the virtues
• The cardinal virtues
• The Intellectual virtues
• The gifts of the Holy Spirit
• The difference between the gifts and the virtues
• Class 21
• Gifts of the Holy Spirit (continued)
• The experience of grace
• Class 22
• The fruits and the beatitudes
• Class 23
• Sinfulness
• The two moments of sin
• Malum, peccatum, and culpa
• Malum culpae, malum poenae
• The location of sin
• The internal efficient causes of sin
• External efficient causes of sin
• Original Sin
• Class 24
• The Capital Sins
• Social and personal sin
• Sins against the Holy Spirit
• Internal and external sins
• Sins against God, neighbors, and ourselves
• Sins that cry out for divine punishment
• Distinction between mortal and venial sins
• Mortal sins
• Venial Sins
• Class 25
• The treatise on law
• Law has its source in reality
• The common good
• The types of laws
• The eternal law
• False understandings of the natural law
• Class 26
• The error of the proposition of pure nature
• Lex and Ius
• Saint Thomas’ understanding of the natural law
• The dignity of reason and the natural law in morality
• The Human Law
• The importance of the belief in the objective moral order for good human law
• Class 27
• The relationship between the human and the natural law
• The revealed law
• Class 28
• Saint Paul and the Old Law
• The law of the Holy Spirit
• Treatise on the New Law (I-II, 106-8)
• The priority of the grace of the Holy Spirit
• The importance of the written and spoken Gospel
• The Counsels
• Bibliography:
• Footnotes