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This podcast seeks to educate and empower leaders in politics, civil society and the church to know what it means to be human and to act accordingly.
Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau leads the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN), which he founded in 2010 to provide Christian politicians with faith formation, education and networking opportunities. He is the founder and principal of Ambrose Advice e.U., a company that provides strategic advisory and leadership coaching to senior public office holders around the world. Dr. von Geusau is Rector emeritus and Professor for Philosophy of Law and Education at ITI Catholic University in Austria.
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Session 1: The Question of the Human Person What is a human being, and why does the answer matter? This opening session poses the question freshly and introduces the distinctively Christian claim that the person is made in the imago Dei, showing why this is philosophically load-bearing, not merely pious decoration. We survey the landscape of competing answers and establish what is at stake in Christian anthropology. Reading: Genesis 1–2; CCC §§355–384; Gaudium et Spes §§12–22 Instructor: Dr. ...
Session 8: Friendship, Community, and the Social Nature of the Person Aristotle's account of friendship (philia) and Aquinas's Christianisation of it provide resources for thinking about the bonds beyond family; friendship, civic life, and the Church as fellowship. Charity (caritas) is, for Aquinas, a kind of friendship with God. This session asks what genuine community requires, and what distinguishes authentic bonds from their pale imitations. Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VIII.1–6...
Session 7: The Family as Domestic Church The family is not merely a social unit but a theological reality; the primordial community in which persons are formed and love is learned. This session examines the Church's account of marriage and family as a school of the virtues, and honestly addresses the wounds that distort family life and the tradition's account of healing, mercy, and accompaniment. Reading: Familiaris Consortio §§11–17, 42–48; CCC §§2201–2213; Amoris Laetitia §§57–88 Instructor...
Session 6: The Body as Gift: Incarnation, Vulnerability, and Human Dignity The person is not a soul that happens to inhabit a body but a bodily being whose flesh is constitutive of who they are. This session explores what it means theologically that God became incarnate, and what the Incarnation reveals about the dignity of the body. It also addresses human vulnerability and dependence as positive features of creaturely existence rather than defects to be overcome, drawing on MacIntyre's acco...
ession 5: The Relational Person: Made for Love Against any purely individualist anthropology, the Catholic tradition insists that the person is constituted in relation. In relation to God, to others, and to creation. This session draws on Trinitarian theology as the ground of human sociality: we are made in the image of a God who is himself a communion of persons. What follows for how we understand human loneliness, community, and love? Reading: CCC §§1878–1885; John Paul II, Mulieris Dignita...
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