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Justice makes peace, a course to the introduction to the Roman Catholic social doctrine
As internet course
http://www.kath-soziallehre.de
- A course to the introduction to the Roman Catholic social teaching
Author: Ernst Leuninger
14.07.01
Table of contents of the introduction
Justice makes peace, a course to the introduction to the Roman Catholic social doctrine *
Introduction *
Justice makes peace *
0 Foreword *
1 Targets and target groups *
2 About understanding the social teaching *
3 Construction *
4 Didactics and methodology *
5 Forms of execution and exam *
6 Finalexam (optional) *
7 Chronological way *
8 Those who support *
9 Charge *
10 Planed student days and weekends to introduce and to multiplicate *
11 About my person *
12 Periphery of the work *
13 Fundamental literature *
14 Copyright *
15 Registration and questions *
This course is also a contribution to the special anniversary year 2001 of the Roman Catholic social teaching, also named christian society teaching. Common things with the corresponding remarks in the Protestant area get a greater degree. This is found more and more in the course, too.
In the year 2001 the first social encyclical "Rerum novelty rum" will get 110, "Quadragesimo anno" 70, "Mater et magistra" 40, "Octogesima adveniens" 30, "Laborem exercens" 20 and "Centesimus annus" 10 years old.
This and the conviction that concepts about the social teaching have to be discussed newly, just now at the beginning of the new century, have brought the development of this course.
This course wants to offer a first introduction to the Roman Catholic social teaching. It is directed to all, who are interested, to the cooperating persons of the municipalities and social associations, primarily to the Roman Catholic employee movement as well. It wants all these to become acquainted with the Roman Catholic social teaching, and that all these are able to discuss and to act still better by this knowledge. The course starts from the assumption, that all who are involved have always acted according to the social teaching. The life and experience horizon of the involved persons is part of this course.
2 About understanding the social teaching
Social teaching is no completed system of theorems, stylized perhaps also so highly that it only can be understood of experts. It is an open system that produces new challenges again and again. It is no system either, where only the teaching profession or professors are able to play a part, many persons cooperate, primarily these, who want to realize it in the practice. "The social teaching of the church doesn’t present an own system, but it allows to recognize how the existing systems correspondend to the demands for human dignity or not, seen by the eyes of statements of principles (Libertas conscientiae 74)".
Social teachings are done by the popes, the bishops and by conferences of bishops, the epistemology and the universities for applied science, but primelary by the speeches and the actions of socially enganged christians.
Social teaching is part of a critical theory, so my opinion. Concrete situations and projects, that are to be developed have to be discussed, in the view of its understanding of human dignity and justice. It is no science, that only states the present, but it wants to show how things have to look like. So it’s oriented to actions. It will create critical guidelines about social actings and further development of social structures.
It is also able to stand up for a better possibility of justice and human dignity, by a social discussion in a special way. So it is also an old request to have an effect on the Roman Catholic social teaching about changing the attitudes and changing the structures according their target ideas.
The reader gets a first insight about the social teaching for example in the exercise-book: Practical social teaching, topic exercise-books municipality work 11, The way of the church is human, Aachen 1992.
Four topics (units) shall be worked out.
- The hope about justice
- History of the Roman Catholic social teaching
- Approaches of the social teaching
- Ways to practice today
Normally the handling is proceeded by the method "Notice - Judge – Act". This means, at the beginning there is an analysis of the situation, then follows an ethical judgement, and finally there are tips about necessary steps to change the situation.
The course is a didactically multi media course. Beside the original text search processes in the internet and texts of books or if necessary other media are handled. Questions shall help to preparate and the studying results can be recorded.
When a final certificate is wanted, these would have to be sent in. For this a final work would have to be done as well.
Many original texts are brought in. These convey an immediate impression of social teaching.
5.1 Individual work
The course can be done by individual work. It is studied privately and corresponding performances are done to get a final certificate.
These studies always should be started by considerations, to find a personal entry to the text.
5.2 Weekend and private studies
Introduction about weekends and private studies: During one weekend, or at one or more
fulltime workshops one letter is introduced. The costs of this workshop, which are mostly
the expenses of the corresponded house, have to be added to the charge, that is listed by
point 9.
A final examination is possible as well, when all units are done.
A study weekend could look like this:
Friday
19.30 Introduction
Saturday
09.00 -- 12.00 1st workshop: (Work for chapter 1-2)
15.00 -- 18.00 2nd workshop: (Work for chapter 3-4)
Sunday
08.00 Service
09.15 Final discussion workshop (Summarizing and representation of chapter 5)
Suggestions about the realization
- Various methods are recommended and results from the local possibilities.
- A possible construction of the work units about the 1st unit could be done by several chapters.
- The whole text should be read privately before the conversation, if possible.
- The workshop (plenum) could start with a round table conversation about the question to think about.
- In the following teamwork by three groups about "Notice – Judge – Act".
- Introduce the results of each workshop (plenum) by foils.
- Final discussion.
5.3 Studies in local or regional working groups with multipliers
The studies in local or regional working groups with multipliers in central measures is prepared by central actions. Per one letter 3 till 5 conversation evenings are carried out.
If necessary the expenses of conversation management (local charges) have to be added to the charge, that is listed by point 9.
Contacts to the local education system are useful here.
The final examination is possible here as well.
4 till 6 evenings are possible:
1st evening Introduction
2. - 5th evening One chapter (of 2 – 4) each evening
6th Final
The following is possible, too:
To handle the 1st evening together with the 2nd, and to handle the 6th together with the 5th , then there would be only four evenings.
The conversation could run as follows:
One chapter per evening (The questions about this result in the texts and are listed at the end of each chapter)
It is useful to have read the text at home before
Introducing conversation may be with the question to think about if necessary
There are 9 questions about each chapter:
3 about Notice
3 about Judge
3 about Act
The first question finds always a personal entry to the text, the two others have to be answered by the text.
This can be carried out by three groups, every group has to read about 8 sides and to carry out two questions. So the groups have more time to discuss. The carrying out can be done by one or two persons in little conversation circles as well. The results should be written and be projected by foil, if possible.
After this a round table conversation shall run the answers of the questions (with projection by foil, if possible)
Carry out still unanswered questions
Another method could be, to read the text at home, to note questions and to discuss these questions with each other.
- Finalexam (optional)
- Chronological way
A final examination can be done, it isn't specified. The final examination runs by the written answers of the questions at the end of all four coursesections. In addition, there is to carry out a work with about 5 sides about a topic that is suggested (three suggestions). When this is done, the participants get a certificate from the educationsystem of the KAB diocese Limburg, this can be done by the agreement of the author and those who support as well, if the standard of other KAB educationsystems is kept.
The course lasts, starting with the 1.1.2001, two years and is divided up in four sections.
Those who support are the educationsystem of the diocese of the KAB in the diocese Limburg, the regards content responsibility has Prof. Dr. Ernst Leuninger.
As charges only the expenses are calculated. The cost of materials might be 60-80 DM, if the whole course is carried out, including the coursetext as exercise-book or as CD and the charges on dispatch and carry out the performances. If the coursematerials are loaded down by the internet, there are no charges, unless for exams and if necessary corresponding courses and weekends. The charges are payable about each coursesection.
Costs for the 1st unit arise essentially only by the costs, if a print-out is wanted (approximately 150 sides), postage about 15.00 DM or if a CD is wanted, postage 12.00 DM, diskette with postage 6.00 DM. The payment is done on the account
KAB-DV Limburg Postbank Frankfurt/M, Account no. 60308-609 BLZ. 500 100 60,
Remark: Course
Registration charges at seminars and weekends aren't included by this.
If necessary postage costs etc arise for the exam and the certificate (approximately 10.00 DM).
10 Planed student days and weekends to introduce and to multiplicate
Introduction to cooperation KAB and IWW
In cooperation with the institute for science education IWW of the Phil. Theol. university Vallendar, in Vallendar is planned one study day about introduction and mainly about multiplication the 1st unit on May 5th, 2001, 9.00 to 16.30. These introductions are planned for the other units. An advertising can be requested there from Jan 1st 2001.
Institute für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung, Pallottistr.3, 56179 Vallendar, telephone: 0261 6402 251, telefax: 0261 6402 300, e-mail:
A certificate of the IWW is possible here as well.
Introduction to the 1st unit in cooperation with the Frankfurt social school and KAB
From March 9th –11th a spring training about unit 1 is planned in cooperation with the Frankfurt social school in Wilhelm-Kempf Haus 1, 65207 Wiesbaden-Naurod, telephone 06127 77290, telefax 06127 77297, e-mail:
More details by request or in the internet
http://www.kath-soziallehre.de
under "conferences".
My name is Dr. Ernst Leuninger, I am a Professor for pastoral theology and christian society teaching at the Phil. Theol. university in Vallendar and at the same time diocesanchairman for the Roman Catholic employee movement (KAB) in the diocese Limburg.
Favorable is a computer with link to internet and the corresponding browser, also a standard writing program and the Adobe Acrobat reader.
However, the course can be done by exercise-books without computers as well.
A complete Bible, if possible with the "Einheitsübersetzung", of different publishers (very cheap editions), there are of course Bible CDs (as "Einheitsübersetzung" by Elbikon very expensive), you will also find online Bibles with corresponding searching programmes.
The edition of the most important social encyclicals editor federal association of the KAB, Cologne 1992, can be got
Ketteler-Verlag
Bernhard-Letterhaus-Straße 26
50670 Köln
You find these encyclicals online with corresponding searching programmes, too.
For the whole course and all parts © copyright Ernst Leuninger
For running the course it’s allowed to copy, re-registration is desired.
Mail to
Ernst@leuninger.de
The registration (or questions) can be carried out by e-mail, fax or mail. It is also desired if you study about the internet, too.
You reach me
Email: E-mail: ernst@leuninger.de
Postal:
Dr. Ernst Leuninger
Hubertusstr. 21
65549 Limburg
Telefax: 06431 282391 Telephon: 06431 2823
Registration to unit 1 of the course to the Roman Catholic social teaching
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Street, no.
Place of residence
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If necessary membership of the KAB (which organization or other association)
To run the course I need the unit 1 as
- Correspondence lesson (Costs by dispatch DM 15.00)
- CD (if possible, costs by dispatch 12 DM)
- Diskette (Winword), costs by dispatch 6.00 DM
- I study with help by the internet
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Email: : E-mail: ernst@leuninger.de
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Dr. Ernst Leuninger
Hubertusstr. 21
D 65549 Limburg Germany
Telefax: 00496431 282391 Telephon: 00496431 282390
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