Duration: 85 hours
Ecclesiology - Professor Antonio Luiz Catelan Ferreira
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It aims to reflect on the Identity and Mission of the Church. The study begins with a vision of ecclesiology in the New Testament and Patristics, based on the understanding of the texts of the Gospels and Pauline letters and their unfolding in the theology of the Holy Fathers (Patristics). In the second part, the theological elaboration on the Church is deepened, through the images of People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit, community of redemption / liberation, made by some theologians of the 20th century, such as Rahner, Kung, and Congar. The study concludes with a reflection on the community-sacramental dimension of Christian existence, the Church as Sacrament of salvation, with an accent on the perspective of the laity.
Sacraments - Professor Abimar Oliveira de Moraes
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The course takes as its starting point a look at the current reality of sacramental concepts, reception and practices, especially in the tension between evangelization and sacramentalization. In this changing society the symbolic elements of sacramentals, some rituals and celebrations are also analyzed. In the framework of meanings the purpose of the sacraments and their immanent and eschatological reasons are studied considering the praxis of the Church.
Christian Ethics - Professor Rosemary Fernandes da Costa
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The study begins with some fundamental concepts of ethics to guide the programmatic lines of the course. Christian Ethics, with its new vision of the human being and social relationships, emerges on the pillars of ethics of cultures. From the parameters of Christian ethics we will analyze the challenges related to contemporary society; main concepts; the Christian source and its historical developments; the Second Vatican Council and the fundamental lines of renewed morality; fundamental moral categories: anthropological basis and theological basis; dimensions of Moral Action; sin and virtues.