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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.

Lecture and discussions.

Oral or written exam.

• Second Vatican Council: Gaudium et spes 47-52 with commentaries: Rahner, Karl/Vorgrimler, Herbert: Kleines Konzilskompendium, 434-436; Sander, Hans-Joachim. In: Hünermann, Peter/Hilberath, Bernd Jochen (eds.): Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, Bd. 4. Wien 2005, 770-779.
• Pope Francis: Amoris laetitia. Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation. Rome 2016.
• Farley, Margaret: Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. New York, London 2006.
• Hilpert, Konrad (Hg.): Zukunftshorizonte katholischer Sexualethik. Freiburg i. Br. 2011.
• Karle, Isolde: Liebe in der Moderne. Körperlichkeit, Sexualität und Ehe. Gütersloh 2014.
• Nave-Herz, Rosmarie: Ehe- und Familiensoziologie. Eine Einführung in Geschichte, theoretische Ansätze und empirische Befunde. Weinheim 2004.

For Diploma Programme in Catholic Theology: successful completion of compulsory module 1 of the first part of the studies.