LICENTIATE IN MORAL THEOLOGY

HoD: Dr. Josin Kaithakulam, CMI

Email: josincmi@gmail.com

1. Vision: This is envisioned to promote systematic and critical reflection on the perennial values of Christ’s Gospel that moulds and directs the history of humankind in the light of revelation and the day-to-day human experience.

2. Objectives

1. To reflect scientifically on abiding Christian values in relation to the context of Indian society;
2. To train personnel for teaching who can meaningfully present the values of the Gospel to the contemporary mind;
3. To promote study and research regarding applicability of Christian moral principles in the socio-religious-cultural context today;
4. To help pastoral ministers and religious formators to integrate Christian moral values in the day-to-day life of their communities.

As a postgraduate programme, the emphasis will be on participatory study and personal research under the guidance of the faculty. The course will consist of lectures, seminars, research papers, field-study and dissertation in the area of specialization. The students will be encouraged to have some teaching experience.

3. Principal Courses

1. Scripture, Tradition and the Teaching of the Church as the Source of Christian Ethics
2. Historical Evolution of Moral Theology as a Science
3. Life in Christ as the Focus of Christian Ethics
4. Conscience and Its Formation: Critical Issues
5. Natural Law: A Basis for Global Ethics
6. Morality of Human Act: New Insights
7. Freedom as the Context of Morality
8. Sin and Salvation
9. Christian Vision of Human Sexuality and Ethical Implications
10. Family Life and Ethical Challenges
11. Breakthroughs in Health Care Sciences and Christian Response
12. Concept of Sanctity of Life: Basis of Christian Bio-Medical Ethics
13. Social Justice: Evolution in the Church’s Understanding
14. Justice of the Kingdom as the Foundation of Christian Ethics: A Critique of Traditional Understanding of Justice in Moral Theology
15. Topical Issues in Biomedical Ethics
16. To Love Otherwise: Biblical Thought and Ethics

4. Optional Courses

1. Ethical Decision Making: Different Approaches
2. Virtue Ethics
3. Ecclesial Character of Christian Ethics: An Oriental Perspective
4. Celebrative Ethics: Spirituality and Morality
5. Ethics in Post-modern Era
6. Ethics and Ecology
7. Ethics in Mass Media
8. Problem of Evil
9. Homosexuality: A Christian Response
10. Unity and Indissolubility of Marriage
11. Marriage and Canon Law
12. Reproductive Technologies: An Ethical Analysis
13. Ethics of Ecology
14. Medical Advancement and Quality of Life

5. Tutorials: The Tutorials may be selected from the following topics or from any other area in consultation with the professor concerned.

1. Covenant and Ten Commandments
2. Sermon on the Mount and Kingdom Morality
3. Trinitarian Dimensions of Christian Ethics
4. Scholastic Understanding of Moral Theology
5. War and Peace
6. Culture of Life vs. Culture of Death: A study on Abortion/Euthanasia
7. Capital Punishment: A Moral Evaluation
8. Marriage: A Call to Holiness
9. Genetic Engineering
10. Ethics of Human Experimentation
11. Tribal Ethics
12. Influence of Liberation Theology in Moral Reflection.

6. Field Study: Every student has to make a field study in a scientific manner under the supervision of an expert. The report has to be prepared and presented at the beginning of the third semester