Reason and Revelation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
RELI 292
Fall 2019
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01
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| Crosslisting:
PHIL 282 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
With the dawning of modernity, Europe's colonial and scientific adventures opened a distinction of mutual suspicion between theology and philosophy. Broadly speaking, "philosophy of religion" is the effort to evaluate the claims of revelation and reason in terms of one another. 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, Romantics, and liberationists. Themes 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, "divine" racism, the gender of God, the ecocidal tendencies of Abrahamic theology, and the role theology might or might not play in efforts toward ecological, sexual, and racial justice. |
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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: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from Anselm of Canterbury, PROSLOGIUM
Selections from Thomas Aquinas, SUMMA THEOLOGICA
Descartes, Rene, MEDITATIONS
Spinoza, Baruch, THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL TREATISE
Kant, Immanuel, RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF MERE REASON
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
Plato, REPUBLIC, BOOK VII
W.E.B. DuBois, THE COMING OF JOHN
Jantzen, Grace, BECOMING DIVINE: TOWARD A FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Jones, William R., IS GOD A WHITE RACIST?
J. Kameron Carter, "CHRISTIAN ATHEISM: THE ONLY RESPONSE WORTH ITS SALT TO THE ZIMMERMAN VERDICT"
Pope Francis I, LAUDATO SI: ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
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Examinations and Assignments:
Full attendance and participation, several short response papers, and three critical papers. |
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: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: SCIE109; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 7 | FR: X |
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