Syllabus

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In light green: the first semester. When hovering over the [brackets], the active links are revealed.

In pink: the second semester.

In blue: the third semester

In orange: the fourth semester.

In yellow: talks that will soon have active links.

   In green: the fifth semester

 

SECTION 1: Introduction. SPIRITUALITY

• Spirituality and Religion. (Gonzalo Haya) [7 talks] [1]  [2]  [3]  [4]  [5]  [6]  [7]
• Returning to Jesus. Pastoral proposal. (José Antonio Pagola) [3 talks] – [1]  [2] [3]
• Spirituality for living. (José Arregi) [2 talks] [1] [2]
• Spirituality for a plural society. (Javier Melloni) [1 talk] [1]

 Bibliography:

• Groups of Jesus. J.A. Pagola (PPC)
• Spiritual intelligence. G. Haya (Feadulta)  – paper format – epub format
• The talks of José Arregi. Invitation to spirituality (Feadulta)

 

SECTION 2: THE BIBLE 

• Biblical Hermeneutics (Xabier Pikaza) [2 talks] [1] [2] 

• Hermeneutics from the woman’s perspective (Carmiña Navia) [1 talk] [1]

 

THE OLD TESTAMENT

J.L. Sicre – [5 talks] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

• Introduction to the Old Testament. What is it? What problems does it pose for
  today’s Christian? What does it offer?

  The Pentateuch

  The historical books

  The prophets. The people and the books

  Wisdom and poetic literature

Bibliography:

• Introduction to the Old Testament. J.L. Sicre (Verb D.)

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT 

• Introduction to the Gospels (Pope Godoy) [6 charlas] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
• How the Gospels were formed
• The Gospel of Mark
• The Gospel of Matthew
• The Gospel of Luke
• The Gospel of John
• The Prologue to the Gospel of John
• The Gospel of Mark and the Variants of Matthew and Luke (G. Haya) [2 charlas] [1] [2]
  • Mark, a Christ too human? Jesus of Galilee
  • Mark, a Christ too human? The eight words on the Cross
• Contradictions in the Gospels (G. Haya) [1 charla] [1]
  
• Revelation (Andrés Torres Queiruga) [1 charla] [1]
• Historical and Sociological Context (José Luis Sicre) [1 charla] [1]
• Mary, neighbor of Nazareth (Marifé Ramos) [1 charla] [1a][1b]
• The Acts (Gonzalo Haya)
• John, Paul, other Epistles, Apocrypha (-)

Bibliography:

• Return to Jesus of Galilee, commentary and exegesis on the Gospel of Mark. G. Haya (Feadulta)
• The First Churches. J.E. Galarreta (Feadulta)
• Rethinking Revelation. A. Torres Q. (Trotta)

 

CHRISTOLOGY.

• The Life of Jesus, message, movement (José Arregi)[7 charlas][1] [2a] [2b] [3] [4a] [4b] [5] [6] [7a] [7b]
  
  
  • Jesus: his land, his time, his family. Son of a virgin mother?
  • Baptized by John: difficult to digest, key to understanding
  • Healer of bodies and souls: Did Jesus perform miracles?
  • Blessed are the poor: Jesus’ subversion
  • Disciples (male and female): Jesus against a clerical and patriarchal religion
  • Died “for our sins”, for “our salvation”?
  • “Son of God”: human and divine? A rereading of the dogma
• Resurrection. (Andrés Torres Queiruga) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• The humanity of Jesus. (José María Castillo) [1 charla] [1]
• Gospel of the Good Shepherd. (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1]
• Loving Jesus more in Aramaic (Vicente Haya) [1 charla] [1]
• Bethlehem, Magi, Paschal Supper… (-)
• Jesus and other religions (-)

Bibliography:

• Jesus in the 21st Century. J. Arregi (Feadulta)
• Jesus Lived For Us. Fray Marcos (Feadulta)

 

SECTION 3: OUR BELIEFS

The mystery of God:

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• Theory of Religions (Xabier Pikaza) [1 charla][1a] [1b]
• The Images of God, from Omnipotence to Mercy (Juan Antonio Estrada)[1 charla] [1]
• A God who creates out of love (Andrés Torres Queiruga) [1 charla] [1]
• The God of all love: the Trinity (Silvia Martínez Cano) [1 charla] [1]
• No duality: seeing deeply and living in fullness (Enrique Martínez Lozano)[2 charlas][1a][1b][2]
• Demystifying mysticism (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• Silence as a path of contemplation (Olga Cebrián) [1 charla] [1]
• St. John of the Cross, a colossus on fire (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• Divine humanity (Fray Marcos) [1 charla]
  

Bibliography:

• Someone like this is the God in whom I believe. A. Torres Q. (Trotta)
• Divine Humanity. Fray Marcos (Feadulta)

 

THEOLOGY OF CREATION. 

Creation.

• The Problem of Evil (Andrés Torres Queiruga) [1 talk] [1]
• Creationism and evolution: Us, Homo Sapiens. Leandro Sequeiros [1 talk] [1]
• Human species, consciousness, freedom. (-)
• Anthropology (José Ignacio González Faus) [1 talk] [1a][1b]
• Rethinking Hell. (Andrés Torres Queiruga) [1 talk] [1]
• Fullness is starting point, goal and path. (Fray Marcos) [1 talk] [1a] [1b]

Bibliography:

• Rethinking evil. A. Torres Q. (Trotta)
• Reading of the Gospels according to Fray Marcos. (Feadulta)

 

RELIGIONS.

• History and comparative study of the Three Great Religions. (Xabier Pikaza) [1 talk] [1a] [1b]
• The monotheisms. (Juan José Tamayo) [1 talk][1]
• The religious utopia (Juan José Tamayo)[1 talk][1]
• Blessed are the atheists (María López Vigil) [1 talk] [1a] [1b]
• The face of God shown to us by Jesus (Isabel Gómez-Acebo) [2 talks] [1] [2]

 

Bibliography:

• The Great Religions. X. Pikaza (Tempora)

 

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THEOLOGICAL PLURALISM

The diversity of current theology:

• Theology of Liberation (Suyapa Pérez Escapini)[1 charla][1]
• Gustavo Gutiérrez and the spirituality of open eyes.(Juan Pablo García Maestro) [1 charla][1]
• The poor as a theological place (Pepa Torres)[1 charla][1a] [1b]
• Feminine spiritual traditions in the history of the Church (Carmiña Navia) [1 charla] [1]
• Feminist theology (Margarita Pintos) [2 charlas] [1a] [1b] [2]
  • Feminist theology. Basic principles and early figures
  • Prominent figures in the history of feminist theology
• Emerging theologies: African, Asian, political, ecological… (Juan José Tamayo) [2 charlas] [1] [2]
•  Religion or Gospel? (José M. Castillo) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• The Church and its renewal (José Ignacio González Faus)[1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• The Church (Juan Antonio Estrada) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• The laity (Juan Antonio Estrada) [1 charla] [1]
• Another God is possible (María López Vigil) [1 charla] [1]
• Easter Eucharist (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1]
• Homily on the Gospel of Thomas’ unbelief (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1]
• Pentecost Eucharist (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1]
• The Magisterium: The imperative of honesty. (James Alison) [1 charla]  [1]
• The role of women in the Church. (Pepa Torres) [1 charla] [1a] [1b]
• The God of Jesus (Silvia Martínez Cano) [1 charla] [1]
• News report on Monsignor Romero (María López Vigil) [1 charla] [1]
• The Eucharist and human relationships (José Ignacio González Faus)[1 charla] [1]
• Ordination of Catholic priestesses (Cristina Moreira) [1 charla] [1]
• Eucharist on the Inner Law (Fray Marcos) [1 charla] [1]
• The sacrament of the order (Juan Antonio Estrada)
• History, evolution (Juan Antonio Estrada)
• Organization of the new Curia (-)
• Liturgy (-)

 

Bibliography:

• Another God is possible. José Ignacio y María López Vigil (Feadulta)
• Another religion is possible. J.J. Tamayo (Feadulta)
• Another theology is possible. J.J. Tamayo (Herder)
• Popular theology. J.M. Castillo (Desclée)
• Recovering the fraction of the bread (Feadulta)
• The Gospel, life project (Feadulta)

 

SECTION 4: FAITH AND CULTURE.

ETHICS AND MORALITY.  

• Pluriform Sexuality and inclusive education. Juan Masiá [1 talk] [1]
• Gender violence. Ana de Miguel [1 talk] [1]
• A compassionate life. Margarita Pintos [1 talk] [1a] [1b]
• The liberating concept of Gender. Pepa Torres [1 talk] [1]
• Bioethics.
  
  • Foundations (-)

Bibliography:

• Caring for life. Bioethical debates. Juan Masiá (Herder)

 

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 

• Ecology. Commentary on the encyclical Laudato Si. Leandro Sequeiros [1 talk] [1]
• Science and Faith. Believing after Darwin and Hawking. Leandro Sequeiros [1 talk] [1]
• Human rights, democracy. (-)
• Secularism and laicity. (José M. Castillo)

Bibliography:

• The secularity of the gospel. J.M. Castillo (Desclée)

GROUP FACILITATION.

• Social competence course (Manuel Segura) [8 talks] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

• Group dynamics, motivation, problem-solving, etc. (María Calvo, Vicente Martínez, Víctor D. Blanco.)

• Human relations. Various authors (Feadulta)

Bibliography: 

• Teaching to live together. Manuel Segura (Desclée)