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Knowledge of current requirements of relations in the personal environment, and arguments from a Christian perspective.

The course covers the personal life in the family and the social network of friendship. Historical developments and current social debates affect the lived models of life. Social functions of marriage and family today, concrete problems of sexuality, identity and relationships, are discussed as well as the issues of sex education, emotional competence and the Christian basic orientations for the design of partnership relations in self-responsibility and mutual respect.

Presentation and discussion.

Oral or written exam.

• Zweites Vatikanisches Konzil: Gaudium et spes 47-52 mit Kommentar von Rahner/Vorgrimler: Kleines Konzilskompendium, 434-436 und Kommentar von Sander H-J. In: Hünermann, Peter/Hilberath, Bernd Jochen (Hg.): Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, Bd. 4. Wien 2005, 770-779.
• Papst Franziskus: Amoris laetitia. Nachsynodales Apostolisches Schreiben. Rom 2016.
• Farley, Margaret: Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. New York, London 2006.
• Karle, Isolde: „Da ist nicht mehr Mann noch Frau...". Theologie jenseits der Geschlechterdifferenz. Gütersloh 2006.
• Nave-Herz, Rosmarie: Ehe- und Familiensoziologie. Eine Einführung in Geschichte, theoretische Ansätze und empirische Befunde. Weinheim 2004.

For Diploma Programme in Catholic Theology: positive completion of compulsory module 1 (first part of studies).

For Bachelor's Programme in Catholic Religious Education: positive completion of compulsory module 1.