Vatican II: The Conciliar Church

COURSE TITLE: Vatican II: The Conciliar Church

COURSE LAUNCH DATE: January 9th, 2017

INSTRUCTOR CONTACT: Jacob Nelson, M.T.S., M.A.; [email protected]

6 Week Instructor Led: Maximum of 35 students

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This online course will explore the foundational principles of the Conciliar Church and how they laid the groundwork for the Post-Conciliar Church for Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Participants will understand the authentic teachings of the Second Vatican Council and the purpose for the Council.

Participants will be able to recognize the great role that the Second Vatican Council played in the last two pontificates.

Participants will be able to explain how the Second Vatican Council answered the needs of modern man, and how it continues to do so through the pastoral principles that it laid forth.

1. MODULES

Module 1: Lumen Gentium

Lecture: Pre-recorded

Required Reading: Lumen Gentium

Module 2: Dei Verbum

Lecture: Pre-Recorded

Required Reading: Dei Verbum

Recommended Reading: Divino Afflante Spiritu & Providentissimus Deus

Module 3: Gaudium et Spes, Part 1

Lecture: Pre-recorded

Required Reading: Gaudier et Spes, Paragraphs 1-45

Module 4: Gaudium et Spes

Lecture: Pre-recorded

Required Reading: Gaudier et Spes, Paragraphs 46-end

Module 5: Sacrosanctum Concilium

Lecture: Pre-Recorded

Required Reading: Sacrosanctum Concilium

Recommended Readings: Spirit of the Liturgy

Module 6: Ecclesiam Suam

Lecture: Pre-Recorded

Required Reading: Ecclesiam Suam, Pope Paul VI

Note: This document is not a part of the Council, rather it is the vision for how the Church is to live the Council out after the end of it. It was written by a highly influential Cardinal at the Council, Cardinal Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI.

REQUIRED READINGS AND RESOURCES:

• The Sixteen Documents of Vatican II, Introductions by Douglas G. Bushman, S.T.L., Pauline Books and Media, ISBN:0-8198-7018-8 or 978-0-8198-7018-6 (This edition is out of print, but can be found on Amazon for as low as $4.95)
• (Recommended) Sources of Renewal: Implementation of Vatican II, Karol Wojtyla, Harper Collins Publications. ISBN: 978-0-0606-4188-7
• (Recommended) Spirit of the Liturgy, Joseph Ratzinger, Ignatius Press. ISBN: 978-0-8987-0784-7

1. EVALUATION

• A summative paper is due at the end of the course which should underscore the students understanding of the Universal Call to Holiness, how that leads to personal and ecclesial renewal and the process by which that is done.

1. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY

Avoiding Plagiarism

In its broadest sense, plagiarism is using someone else's work or ideas, presented or claimed as your own. At this stage in your academic career, you should be fully conscious of what it means to plagiarize. This is an inherently unethical activity because it entails the uncredited use of someone else's expression of ideas for another's personal advancement; that is, it entails the use of a person merely as a means to another person’s ends.

Participants:

• Should identify the title, author, page number/webpage address, and publication date of works when directly quoting small portions of texts, articles, interviews, or websites.
• Students should not copy more than two paragraphs from any source as a major component of papers or projects.
• Should appropriately identify the source of information when paraphrasing (restating) ideas from texts, interviews, articles, or websites.

1. ABOUT YOUR PROFESSOR

Name: Mr. Jacob Nelson, M.T.S., M.A.

Pertinent biographical information: Jacob is a graduate of Ave Maria University with a masters degree in theological studies, and is a soon to be graduate from Holy Apostles College and Seminary with a masters in philosophy with a concentration in ethics. He is recently married, and lives in Maple Grove, MN with his wife. He works full time for a local parish as the Director of Evangelization and Catechesis, and is working on founding a peer-reviewed journal in the areas of philosophy and theology. Jacob’s primary theological education came from professors who have first hand knowledge and experience of the immediate post-conciliar Church, some of whom made contributions to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a fruit of the Council.