DVDT 800-03

Man and Woman He created Them: Complementarity and the Church (3 cr.)

Monday evenings, 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. beginning Feb. 6, 2012

The aim of this course is to explore the meaning and significance of the complementarity of men and women and its implications for building up the Body of Christ in the family, in the Church, and in the world. Pastoral ministers and catechetical leaders need to understand the Church's teaching on these questions so that they can convey it to those they serve. But perhaps more importantly, they need this understanding so that it can inform their work in concrete ways, both pastorally and administratively.

These realities have implications that include the way in which they inform our ecclesial life. Therefore, an additional aim of the course is to clarify the complementary roles of the ministerial priesthood and the laity in the Church. It is designed to equip those who are in the process of preparing themselves to serve as pastoral ministers and catechetical leaders to understand and articulate the Church's teaching on these matters and to ground their own pastoral work in that teaching.

Prerequisites: Ecclesiology (DVDT 502) or approval of the instructor