Introduction to God and Persons

Important Notice:

1.Your Short Essay,

2. You will have your second "unexpected" quiz on Feb. 24 Tuesday

3. Your Final Essay

4. You will have your second exam on April. 20 Tuesday

5. Your Study Guide for the Final

Related Lectures

Syllabus

Contents

Introduction

General Introduction

C.S. Lewis, "On Obstinacy in Belief"

David Hume, "A Critique of the Design Argument"

Outline 1

Outline 2

Outline 3

Religious Experiences

Saint Teresa, "Religious Experiences"

William James, "Religious Experience as the Root of Religion

Wayne Proudfoot, "Religious Experiences as Interpretative Accounts"

Lao Zi (or Lao Tzu)'s Dao De Jing (or Tao Te Ching)

Discussion

Faith and Reason

Thomas Aquinas, "The Harmony of Reason and Revelation"

Blaise Pascal, "The Wager"

William James, "The Will to Believe"

Soren Kierkegaard, "Truth is Subjective"

Gita

Religion and Science

The Problem of Evil

Miracles

The Existence of God

Life After Death

Human Destiny and The Meaning of Life

Stephen Jay Gould, "Two Separate Domains"

Saint Augustine, "Evil is Privation of Good"

David Hume, "Evil Makes a Strong Case against God's Existence"

David Hume, " The Evidence of Miracles Is Weak"

Richard Taylor, "A Contemporary Version of the Cosmological Argument

Paul Davies, " A Naturalistic Account of the Universe"

C. S. Lewis, "The Moral Argument"

Sri Aurobindo, "Rebirth"

Westphal &Cherry, "Is Life Absurd?

L. N. Tolstoy, "The Fundamental Contradiction of Human Life" etc.

Zen Buddhis, "The Art of Living"

Outline 11

Outline 12 (discussion and film)

Discussion

Handout & Discussion