Teaching code

4S003310

Teacher

Ferdinando Luigi Marcolungo

Coordinator

Ferdinando Luigi Marcolungo

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. IB dal Nov 13, 2017 al Jan 20, 2018.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Teaching is devoted to the confrontation between philosophy and theology as a privileged ground for the contemporary question of religious experience in general. Through the comparison with an exemplary figure and with a text we try to link the two fields of research so that the student can acquire the essential references for a stand-alone position in the field of studies. At the end of the course, the student must be able to acquire sufficient critical capacity for further research and to apply his knowledge to the areas of reference of the current debate.

Program

The exemplary figure to which this year is addressed is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with reference to the text Creation and Fall. It is the lesson course that, with great inner involvement, held at the University of Berlin as a free teacher in 1932/33. Some course attendants insisted on the teacher to print the manuscript. Thanks to them, today's reader of Creation and Fall is almost to participate directly in the academic course held by Bonhoeffer: a university course that reaches the spiritual intensity of an extraordinary meditation on decisive pages of Scripture. The authentic interpretation of the Old Testament is authentic and profound, as it is fruitful for the developments that will be in the same author: its ethics will burst the roots in Biblical anthropology, and from this point on, it will start the idea of ​​elaboration Non-religious concept of theological concepts.
The volume on the relationship between liberal theology and dialectical theology in the formation of Bonhoeffer will allow him to appreciate his theological proposal and at the same time to deepen the philosophical problems with which Bonhoeffer confronts himself.

Required texts:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall, Works by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 3, Queriniana, Brescia 2010.
Ferdinando Luigi Marcolungo, Dietrich Bonhoeffer between liberal theology and dialectical theology, QuiEdit, Verona 2016.

Further bibliographical references may be provided on the e-learning and lesson web site, also in view of possible personal in-depth study.

Examination Methods

Didactic Methods

The teaching methods consist of traditional lectures devoted to the introduction to the figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and to the reading and commentary of the text Creation and Fall, aimed at transmitting basic historical-conceptual notions about philosophy of religion in general and the relationship between theology and philosophy.
Each lesson will be recorded in WMA format and, together with all the material analysed during the course, will be punctually loaded on the e-learning platform of the University with the aim of easing the study for both attending students and those who can not attend lectures.
During the academic year, an individual consultation service is also available at the teacher's study, at the times indicated on the web pages and readily updated.

Examination arrangements

The assessment of the learning outcomes of the fundamentals and the related problematic nuclei will be carried out by means of an oral test of the program carried out. This test will consist of questions to test the students' critical-argumentative ability, textual exegesis, conceptual clarity and the acquisition of an adequate philosophical vocabulary. The student is also required to submit a brief report on the subject or text of his choice concerning the program, for up to six folders (maximum 15,000 spaces including spaces), which will be discussed during the exam. The grades are expressed in thirtieths. The examination is the same for both attending students and non-attending ones.