Theological Anthropology

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module studies what it means to be human from the perspective of theology. The study will continue to narrate the story of the human as imago Dei, at once enmeshed in a story of deep seated human alienation. In the Western tradition grace became a key concept in the articulation of the interplay of divine and human in history. This module studies its deployment from the time of Reformation. The vocabulary of grace is redeployed, refashioned, argued over, and refined over the eras. Among many others there are breakthrough theologies of grace articulated by Luther, Trent, Henri de Lubac and Rahner. Perspectives on graced desire and graced bodiliness will be seen as foundational to Catholic thinking on sexuality, justice, and the dignity of human life.