Skeptics and Believers : Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition

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Call Number: BOCD 201.6 Ro Oversize
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Compact discs.
36 lectures - 30 minutes per lecture.
Lecture 1. Religion and modernity -- Lecture 2. From suspicion to the premodern cosmos -- Lecture 3. From Catholicism to Protestantism -- Lecture 4. Scientific revolution and Descartes -- Lecture 5. Descartes and modern philosophy -- Lecture 6. Enlightenment and religion -- Lecture 7. Natural religion and its critics -- Lecture 8. Kant - religion and moral reason -- Lecture 9. Kant, romanticism, and pietism -- Lecture 10. Schleiermacher - religion and experience -- Lecture 11. Hegel - religion, spirit, and history -- Lecture 12. Theology and the challenge of history.
Lecture 13. 19th-century Christian modernists -- Lecture 14. 19th-century Christian antimodernists -- Lecture 15. Judaism and modernity -- Lecture 16. Kierkegaard's faith -- Lecture 17. Kierkegaard's paradox -- Lecture 18. 19th-century suspicion and Feuerbach -- Lecture 19. Marx - religion as false consciousness -- Lecture 20. Nietzsche and the genealogy of morals -- Lecture 21. Nietzsche - religion and the ascetic ideal -- Lecture 22. Freud - religion as neurosis -- Lecture 23. Barth and the end of liberal theology -- Lecture 24. Theology and suspicion.
Lecture 25. Protestant theology after Barth -- Lecture 26. 20th century Catholicism -- Lecture 27. Modern Jewish philosophy -- Lecture 28. Post-Holocaust theology -- Lecture 29. Liberation theology -- Lecture 30. Secular and postmodern theologies -- Lecture 31. Postmodernism and tradition -- Lecture 32. Fundamentalism and Islamism -- Lecture 33. New atheisms -- Lecture 34. Religion and ratonality -- Lecture 35. Pluralisms - religious and secular -- Lecture 36. Faith, suspicion, and modernity.
Professor Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College, lecturer.
This course explores how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion is irrational and illusory. Is religious faith blind submission? Or can it be part of an intellectually vital and realistic view of the world? Or could it be both, that religion is complicated-- at times bound up with the worst, at other times bound up with the best?

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