Christian Ethics is a required one-semester course in Religious Studies for Juniors. This course examines the human experience of the moral life. The focus of this class is the Roman Catholic moral theological tradition even while examining ethical insights from a variety of philosophical, religious, and cultural traditions. The fundamental perspective of this course is that Christian Ethics is an invitation to follow the way of Christ; that all persons fulfill their human destiny in response to the gratuitous love of God characterized by our loving one another as our neighbor. The class explores themes of truth and goodness, development of moral character, formation of personal conscience, spiritual discernment in the Ignatian tradition, criteria for judgment and action, and counter-cultural exemplars of servant and moral leadership. This course should be seen in direct relation to next semester's required Religious Studies course, Social Justice.