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This course continues
CATH 205 by examining the role of philosophy and reasoning to the Catholic Church's fulfillment of its own mission to express the truth about God, and follows the historical emergence of the synthesis of faith and reason. The course also considers how the Catholic intellectual life manifests itself in deference towards faith.
Continues the exploration of goodness begun in
CATH 206 through the study of lives of the Saints. The lives of the Saints present extraordinary examples of Christian life lived out in goodness and beauty, often in the face of personal and social challenges of their culture and time. The course will consider the saint's (or saints') achievements both in terms of their intellectual and cultural significance, and of their significance to Catholic history and the development of the Catholic understanding of the possibilities of grace and freedom.
The Catholic Intellectual & Artistic Tradition. The continued exploration of the expression of beauty in human life begun in
CATH 207, by a more concentrated study of Catholic contributions tot he intellectual and artistic life. This course will study one or more distinct areas of intellectual endeavor(such as art or music of a specific period, the history of philosophy, theological developments, literature), consider both in terms of its own goals and methodology, and as expressions of the creativity of field and the grace of Christian vocation. Where possible, the course will include study and analysis of the culture and of specific figure's own writing; otherwise, it will rely on bibliographical and other sources to inform course analysis.