Available courses

REEXSPI/REEXECO invites you to explore the relevance of religious traditions in relation to the current local and international events. Rooted from day-to-day experiences in life, you will be engaged in meaningful conversations with people from different beliefs. Through in-campus and off-campus activities, you will be challenged to discover your inner potential in understanding the goodness in human events that constitute religious experience and spirituality.

MARFAMI emphasizes the meaning, purpose, and value of Christian marriage. It educates you towards a deeper understanding of family, its tasks, and mission in society. It will equip you with tools that are necessary for fostering the vocation of marriage, finding your sanctity, and building a community of love. It also includes Christian response to the call of marriage and family in filial, communal, and ecclesial dimensions.

 
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BICHECO helps you explore a healthy dialogue with the Bible and the Church. It is a dialogue of life towards your appropriate understanding and appreciation of the relevance of the Holy Bible in our lives and in our contemporary society. Guided by the values of the Sacred Scripture, this course will be a source of inspiration for the future Christian community. Moreover, you are invited to experience the liberating dynamics of our Catholic Church’s Social Teachings calling us to a genuine Christian community life.

Theology 12 studies the ecclesial and communal dimensions of the Christian faith with an emphasis on Catholic social teaching. It explores the question of what it means to be a Christian and Church in today’s wounded and broken world. The course provides students with the opportunity to enter into dialogue and direct personal contact with individuals and communities living on the margins of Philippine society. In the context of these encounters, students critically reflect upon the signs of the times and their own lifestyles, employing other disciplines to analyze social realities. This analysis is brought into dialogue with Scripture and the Christian tradition toward developing a faith-inspired, interdisciplinary view* of Philippine society and the planet. The faith vision that emerges challenges students to live in solidarity with those on the margins through a spirituality that is responsive to the situation and needs of our people and committed to justice in collaboration with all peoples of good will.

Theology 121 is the foundational course of the Ateneo de Manila Theology Program. It introduces sophomore students to the basics for “doing theology” at a college level in the Philippines of today. Theology is faith seeking understanding. Undertaken to arrive at answers to the fundamental questions of the meaning and purpose of human existence in the light of the rich sources of Catholic faith, this on-going search is carried on in the context of the local Christian community, the Church in the Philippines today. 

The course aims at developing in the students the skills needed for “theologizing”: interpreting Scripture and Church Teaching in the unceasing interplay between the “Good News” of salvation and concrete human experience. These skills are focused on Jesus Christ, God’s definitive revelation, in whom the believing Christian’s faith-response finds life’s ultimate meaning and purpose. Learning to “theologize” plays an essential role in developing basic human attitudes and values, by deepening the personal understanding and practice of the Christian faith indicative of disciples of Jesus Christ and active members of his Body, the Church. 

 


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