Catholic Theology

Before you begin, this unit teaches Kinds of theological claims, Scripture and genre, Tradition and transmission, Reason and faith, Classical theism. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Creation and dependence, Human dignity, Sin and responsibility, Grace and response, Reading a doctrinal source. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Trinity without tritheism, Incarnation and natures, Salvation and models, Church and institution, Sacrament and sign. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Conscience and formation, Virtue and habit, Catholic social reasoning, Councils and development, Charitable disagreement. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Inspiration, human authorship, and what a text asserts, Canon, Tradition, and the teaching office as distinct relations, Infallibility, religious assent, and the scope of a teaching act, Typology without erasing Israel or the literal sense, Doctrinal development and the burden of showing continuity. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Baptismal participation: gift, identity, and moral response, The Eucharist, memorial, and the divided Corinthian meal, Active participation, liturgical signs, and accessible worship, Catholic interpretation after Nostra Aetate: Jewish relations and collective blame, Religious freedom: truth, conscience, and the limits of coercion. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Dogma, definitive teaching, and the response each claim asks for, Development of doctrine: tests, not slogans, Scripture and Tradition in Catholic reading, Reading a Church document accurately: speaker, act, addressee, claim, Defined dogma in practice: the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Grace and justification: Trent, the Reformation, and the current state of the dispute, The sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist, Penance, anointing, and the shape of conversion, Conscience and moral reasoning: judgment, formation, and the moral act, The communion of saints: Mary, the saints, and what devotion does and does not claim. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Prayer as grace and as battle: what the Church claims and what it does not, The senses of Scripture, and how to detect a proof-text, The liturgy as source and summit: what liturgical reform can and cannot change, The Eucharist in doctrine and history: presence, sacrifice, and the disputes around them, Catholic social teaching: four principles and the policy questions they do not settle. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Formed conscience and public dissent: what may be argued, and how, Ecumenism: unity as communion, not absorption, Interreligious dialogue: what it is, what it is not, and what remains open, The problem of suffering: the range of legitimate Catholic responses, Science, faith, and how to read a question the Church has not settled. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Work as vocation: why the Church treats ordinary labour as a calling, Marriage as covenant: what the Church defines, what she argues, and what is disputed, The theology of the body: catechesis, magisterium, and a reception in dispute, Virginity, celibacy and the states of life: telling doctrine from discipline, Creation care: the human vocation inside a created order that belongs to God. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Object, intention and circumstance: why consequences alone cannot settle a case, Natural law: how the argument actually runs, and how it is actually attacked, Virtue and habit: how character shapes what a person can see and do, Medical ethics at the beginning and end of life: where doctrine stops and judgement begins, Capstone: weighing a contested prudential judgement, using migration policy as the case. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Inspiration and inerrancy: what the Church defines, and what the argument over 'without error' actually covers, Historical criticism and the Catholic exegete: what Rome permits, requires and rules out, The development of doctrine: what development can and cannot mean, How a council works: Nicaea to Vatican II as historical events, and where conciliar authority rests, Other religions after Vatican II: what Nostra Aetate teaches, what Dominus Iesus adds, and where Catholics still disagree. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches The sacraments of healing: penance and the anointing of the sick, The communion of saints, purgatory, and praying for the dead, Mary and the saints: what is defined, what is devotion, what is disputed, The Church and political life: what binds, what is prudential, what is disputed, Scandal and sin in the Church: the record, accountability, and reading a contested document. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.