Religious Studies

Course summary

Philosophy of Religion: • Ancient Philosophical Influences: Plato and Aristotle. • Soul, Mind, Body • Arguments based on observation: Teleological argument, cosmological argument and challenges to arguments from observation. • Arguments based on reason: ontological argument. • Religious Experience • Problem of Evil Religion and Ethics: • Ethical theories (Kant, Utilitarianism, Situation Ethics, Natural Law, Meta-Ethics, Conscience) • Applied Ethics topics (Euthanasia , Business Ethics and Sexual Ethics) Developments in Christian Thought: • Augustine’s Teaching on Human Nature • Death and the Afterlife • Knowledge of God’s Existence • Jesus Christ • Christian Moral Principles and Christian Moral Action • Religious pluralism and theology and society • Gender, theology and society • The Challenge of Secularism • Liberation Theology and Marx