Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - The Relational Person: Made for Love

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 Dignitatem §7; Martin Buber, I and Thou Part I

Instructor: Dr. Aloysius Ventham

Philosopher and meta-ethicist. Program Director of the Villa Steiner Academy. Works on moral reasoning, judgment, and responsibility; teaches philosophy and ethics in Salzburg and Vienna.