Reason and Revelation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
RELI 292
Fall 2015
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| Crosslisting:
PHIL 282 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
Throughout the medieval period in Europe, philosophy and theology were thought to be compatible, if not completely coextensive. With the dawning of modernity, however, a distinction of mutual suspicion began to emerge between the secular and sacred disciplines. Broadly speaking, "philosophy of religion" is the effort to evaluate the claims of revelation and reason in terms of one another, revealing either consonance or dissonance between the two. We will examine some of the major texts within this field, whose authors include deep skeptics, committed Christians, committed anti-Christians, secular and nonsecular Jews, feminists, ethicists, idealists, empiricists, and Romantics. Themes to be explored include proofs of God's existence--along with refutations of those proofs and rebuttals to those refutations--the problem of evil, religious ethics, religious experience, the possibility of a universal religion, and the relationships between monotheism, race, ecology, and gender. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RELI |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(PHIL)(PHIL-Philosophy)(PHIL-Social Jus)(RELI-MN)(RELI)(STS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from Thomas Acquinas
Descartes, Rene, MEDITATIONS
Kant, Immanuel, RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON ALONE
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, ON RELIGION
Kierkegaard, Soren, FEAR AND TREMBLING
Nietzsche, Friedrich, ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
Irigaray, Luce, SEXES AND GENEALOGIES
Derrida, Jacques, THE GIFT OF DEATH
Feuerbach, Ludwig, THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
Freud, Sigmund, OBSESSIVE ACTS AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
Jantzen, Grace, BECOMING DIVINE: TOWARD A FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Jones, William R., IS GOD A WHITE RACIST?
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Examinations and Assignments:
Full attendance and participation, occasional quizzes, two critical papers, one midterm exam, and one final exam. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the "Method & Theory" OR "Historical Traditions" requirement for the Religion major. |
| Instructor(s): Rubenstein,Mary-Jane Victoria Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 10 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 6 |
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