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Th 151 Thesis Statements

Edilberto C. Jimenez
2018-2019

1. Vocation is the response to God’s call towards absolute union with God through one’s
particular state of life and work towards the common good.

2. Jesuit education forms and helps its students discern their vocations through cura personalis,
total holistic formation, developing them to be persons for others, dialogue between faith and
reason, and magis.

3. Faith in God is the authentic subjectivity that leads to genuine objective Truth. It is through
dialogue between faith and reason that enables humanity to reach the fullness of truth.
Divorced from faith, reason falters and becomes enmeshed in errors such as reductionisms
and self-deception.

4. Freedom is the human person’s capacity to achieve his final, irrevocable and eternal self.
Authentic freedom directs one’s primordial commitment towards indwelling. Only in the
unconditional promise of loving “forever” the personal Other can a human person realize
oneself and bear fruit through fidelity.

5. Conscience is the secret core and sanctuary of the human person, where he is alone with God,
whose voice echoes in his depths. Thus, as the proximate norm of morality, a correct
conscience must be obeyed above all else under God in order for the human person to realize
one’s authentic self through concrete actions that conform to the objective divine moral order.

6. Jesus is the ultimate source and norm of Christian moral life by way of discipleship, i.e., to be
like Christ, and more, to be caught up in God’s love, enabling oneself to renounce self-made
securities that create dominating and excluding power and replace it with self-giving crucified
love that creates hospitable inclusion.

7. The Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7) invites us to join Jesus on the mountain. The Sermon
reorients and empowers the believer through God’s Spirit towards unlimited concern for the
good of the other even at the expense of one’s own rights, thus turning the justice of the world
upside down.

8. Sin is the ungrateful missing the mark of the human person’s goal that is God, the source of
personal worth, social solidarity and mutual entrustment. Sin in turn results in disordered
relations to others. Only God’s reconciling and forgiving love can overcome sin.

9. The one God is Love, and thus God is the unity of the three divine Persons, each constituted
by the complete self-donation to other two towards indwelling (perichoresis). The Triune God
is the final ground and archetype of human fidelity and commitment: we are called to be an
icon of the Trinity.
10. The Gospel of John is a call to believe, i.e., to be open to the truth that is the glory of God
revealed through Christ, which leads the believer to commit one’s entire self to life-giving
abiding union with Jesus, the Son who abides with the Father and with all humanity through
the Spirit. Thus, redemption is relational.

Guidelines for the Final Oral Examination

a. You are only allowed to bring a hard copy Bible to the oral exam venue. Use markers to easily
access key passages associated with some of the thesis statements. You do not have to use
the Bible for all the thesis statements—only some thesis statements refer to Scripture as
source.

b. State what the thesis statement as a whole is about. Then describe the role of each sentence
relative to the thesis statement. Define key words. Cite the thesis statement’s sources.

c. For your preparation, use the course outline, then the articles and your classnotes.

d. Superior grasp involves using concrete examples, or extra sources that illustrate, complement
and affirm the thesis statement, but not to replace it or cover up one’s lack of knowledge of it.
Also, be able to relate the thesis statement to one or two thesis statements in the course.
Magis: personal appropriation or rejection of the claims of the thesis statement.

e. Time per student: 9 minutes (1 minute for entrance/exit). It is recommended that you allot
yourself 5-6 minutes for exposition and the remainder for discussion between you and the
teacher.

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