The Spring 2025 course in the Institute’s ongoing Continuing Education Series will be “Called to Love: Theology of the Body.”  It will be held on Wednesday evenings from January 22 to April 30, 2025.

This course will provide a survey of John Paul II’s vision of the person and the vocation of human love drawn from the rich variety of philosophical, theological, and literary texts he gave to the Church over the course of his life. To begin, the course will provide an outline of his phenomenological-philosophical view of personhood drawn primarily from his pre-papal work Love and Responsibility. Next, we will examine the Pope’s theological approach to human love and the vocation inscribed within the sexual difference through select texts from his Wednesday Catechesis, Man and Woman He Created Them. These theological and philosophical frameworks “take flesh” in the final part of the course, in which we will read and discuss a number of literary texts written by Wojtyla/John Paul II including The Jeweler’s Shop.

The course will be taught in person in McGivney Hall on Catholic University of America’s campus in Room 006 and offered online simultaneously.

The course fee is $150. To register, please complete the online registration form. Payment can be submitted via check, cash, or credit card. To submit a credit card payment, please click here.

This course can be taken toward renewal requirements for VCEA licensure. Numerous high schools in the Archdiocese of Washington accept the course for CEU credits.

If you have questions, please contact [email protected]