TRCS08  CATHOLIC SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IN ROME (A.Y. 2024/2025)

• Accademic Unit

  Faculty of Theology

• Course

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Objectives: to explore the central claims of the Catholic intellectual tradition as these are mediated through the imagination and works of art.

Learning outcomes: By the course’s end students will be able to: a) understand the way in which a Catholic “sensibility” is incarnational and sacramental; b) to articulate the ways in which the bodily senses, and the life of the body, are created by God to nourish the life of the spirit, the life of virtue, and the ascent to God.

Contents: Organized around Gaudium et Spes, Lumen Gentium(Vatican II), and the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church,the course will focus on the Christian creed, the Church’s sacramental life, morality, and prayer, as these are illuminated Italian/Roman works of art, architecture, and music. Works will include The Divine Comedy, The Betrothed, compositions by Palestrina and de Victoria, and artworks at the Borghese Gallery.

Means of evaluation: These will include three short essays to prompts (3 x 10%), in-class reading quizzes (20%), one larger essay prompt (25%), and class participation/attendance (25%).

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography

Information

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 6

Teachers

Matthew CUDDEBACK

Lesson schedule/Room

Semester	Day	From	To	Room	Floor	Building	Notes
1° Semestre	Lunedì	10.30	11.15	TBD	0
1° Semestre	Lunedì	11.30	12.15	TBD	0
1° Semestre	Mercoledì	10.30	11.15	TBD	0
1° Semestre	Mercoledì	11.30	12.15	TBD	0

Bibliography

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, USCCB Publishing, 1995; Alighieri, Dante, The Portable Dante, trans. Mark Musa, Penguin Classics, 2003.