Talk Series (Categories)
Talk One: Is God Liberal or Conservative?
Distinguish between heteronomy, autonomy, pariticipatory theonomy
The image of God as neither heteronomous, autonomous
The ad intra: the gift of self according to the four f’s which establishes the
Communion of Persons
Talk two: An Adequate Anthropology, Who is Man?
Distinguish Theological Anthropology from sociology and secular anthropology
and then, for the rest of the talk, show the implications of an anthropology
marked by heteronomy, autonomy, and PT (which follows)
Man is made to be the image of God
Man Pariticipates in God’s rule of the earth
Distinguish the types of freedom, sin makes us less free, virtue makes us more
free to make a gift of self (ffff) and to form a CP
Entering into a CP is important because it is the secret to our greatest fulfillment
Talk Three: God’s love gives life
Love that is open to life is true (i.e. God gives us life and then redeems us…)
Love that cannot give life cannot fulfill us
Show how homosexuality, euthanasia, and contraception are related to the same
“love without life” mentality (a heteronomous/autonomous anthropology)
Show how heterosexuality, suffering (compassion-suffering with), and a pro-life
mentality are related to an anthropology that takes God for its model and
is the only one that can truly fulfill us (as well as lead to good fruits for us
and society)
Talk Four: How to live the secret to happiness
What is a communion of persons (as distinguished from other forms of
relationships, i.e. established through a covenant)
What are the kinds of CP’s: marriage, Holy Orders, Religious Life, Consecrated
Single life
How do each of these fulfull the image of God as a CP? (Especially that sex is
what makes marriage a sacrament-something that makes the invisible
spiritual reality visible-, and that a sacrament must match up with the
reality it is making visible. It makes visible the union of Christ and the
Church, so it must be a gift of self that is ffff or else it is not sacramental-
it is the desecration of a sacrament.)
This is what we were each made for by God in the beginning-the gift of self can
take us back to what Adam and Eve had in the garden of Eden
