KAROL WOJTYLA’S Love and Responsibility
As a young priest and professor of philosophy, Karol Wojtyla gave himself over in a special way to the pastoral care of young couples. Grounded in the thought of Thomas Aquinas as well as phenomenological methods, Wojtyla brought his sharp philosophical intelligence and pastoral heart to bear on his experiences with these couples. The fruit of this was Love and Responsibility, Wojtyla’s first major philosophical work that lays a foundation for understanding his subsequent thought, especially his theology of the body. Love and Responsibility is a work of sexual ethics framed and informed by an adequate anthropology that does full justice to the human person in all of his or her dimensions. This course is chiefly a guided reading and discussion of this seminal work by this great saint, with a view not only to understanding Wojtyla’s teaching, but also (and especially) to reflecting on and perfecting ourselves as human persons whose sexuality provides both meaning and vocational trajectories in our lives.
THIS COURSE HAS CONCLUDED. THE FOLLOWING LESSONS ARE PRE-RECORDED VIDEOS FROM THE SPRING OF 2022.
Text to be purchased:
Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility, trans. G. Ignatik (Pauline, 2013) [ISBN: 978-0819845580]
Note: All reading assignments refer to this translation of Love and Responsibility.
Course Content
Week One - 2/9
Week Two - 2/16
Week Three - 2/23
Week Four - 3/9
Week Five - 3/16
Week Six - 3/23
Week Seven - 3/30
Week Eight - 4/6
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Course Includes
- 8 Lessons
- Course Certificate
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