Day |
Conference |
Visit |
Day 1 |
Introduction to the course, methodology, and goals |
Welcome cocktail |
Day 2 |
The human person, culture, and Christianity |
1. What is culture? The relation between the person and culture
2. Christianity as culture
3. The historical development of Christianity and its construction of a Christian culture
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The Rome of the Romans: the culture in which Christianity is born
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Coliseum, Roman Forums, Palatine Hill
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Day 3 |
The Christian vision of man |
1. Who is man?
2. The drama of human existence |
The early Church: persecution and mission
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Catacombs of St Sebastian, Basilica of St Paul.
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Day 4 |
The perfection of man through the life of virtue
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1. Virtues and vices as the ‘interior culture’ of the human person and his perfection
2. Principles to judge the human act. |
The foundation of a new Christian civilization: the monasteries
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Subiaco |
Day 5 |
Christianity and science |
1. The Christian vision of the natural world.
2. The Christian development of science.
3. Challenges of current scientific visions of the world. |
The triumph of the Church and the Christian world.
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St Peter’s Basilica
The Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
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Day 6 |
Christian society |
1. Christian vision of human society
2. Does a Christian economic or political system exist? Principles for social action |
St Mary Major, St John Lateran, Church of the Holy Cross |
Day 7 |
Pilgrimage to Assisi |
The Church in crisis and the providence of God who guides history through human instruments
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Basilica of St Francis, Basilica of St Clare, House of St Francis, Church of St Damian,
Basilica of Mary of the Angels |
Day 8 |
Free day |
Day 9 |
Christianity in the modern world |
1. Understanding the historical and cultural changes of the last 4 centuries
2. Engagement with the modern world: philosophical and theological principles of dialogue
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Cineforum: Silence |
Day 10 |
Deus Caritas Est: eros and agape
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1. The Christian vision of God and of salvation
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The construction of a new Christian society: the saints and creative minorities |
Piazza Venezia, Piazza Navona, Pantheon, Gesu…
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Day 11 |
The role of the Catholic University in the construction of a new Christian culture
Concluding banquet |
The prophetic and eschatological church |
Orvieto |
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