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Skeptics and believers : religious debate in the western intellectual tradition / Tyler Roberts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2009.Description: 3 v. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598036122
  • 9781598036121
Other title:
  • Religious debate in the western intellectual tradition
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 R647s 2009
Contents:
v. 1. Lectures 1-12. Religion and modernity ; From suspicion to the premodern cosmos ; From Catholicism to Protestantism ; Scientific revolution and Descartes ; Descartes and modern philosophy ; Enlightenment and religion -- Natural religion and its critics ; Kant -- religion and moral reason ; Kant, romanticism, and pietism ; Schleiermacher : religion and experience ; Hegel -- religion, spirit, and history ; Theology and the challenge of history. v. 2. Lecture 13-24. 19th-century Christian modernists ; 19th-century Christian antimodernists ; Judaism and modernity ; Kierkegaard's faith ; Kierkegaard's paradox ; 19th-century suspicion and Feuerbach -- Marx : religion as false consciousness ; Nietzsche and the genealogy of morals ; Nietzsche : religion and the ascetic ideal ; Freud : religion as neurosis ; Barth and the end of liberal theology ; Theology and suspicion. v. 3. Lecture 25-36. Protestant theology after Barth ; 20th-century Catholicism ; Modern Jewish philosophy ; Post-Holocaust theology ; Liberation theology ; Secular and postmodern theologies -- Postmodernism and tradition ; Fundamentalism and Islamism ; New atheisms ; Religion and rationality ; Pluralisms : religious and secular ; Faith, suspicion, and modernity.
Summary: This course will explore 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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Course no. 4670.

"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

v. 1. Lectures 1-12. Religion and modernity ; From suspicion to the premodern cosmos ; From Catholicism to Protestantism ; Scientific revolution and Descartes ; Descartes and modern philosophy ; Enlightenment and religion -- Natural religion and its critics ; Kant --
religion and moral reason ; Kant, romanticism, and pietism ; Schleiermacher : religion and experience ; Hegel --
religion, spirit, and history ; Theology and the challenge of history. v. 2. Lecture 13-24. 19th-century Christian modernists ; 19th-century Christian antimodernists ; Judaism and modernity ; Kierkegaard's faith ; Kierkegaard's paradox ; 19th-century suspicion and Feuerbach -- Marx : religion as false consciousness ; Nietzsche and the genealogy of morals ; Nietzsche : religion and the ascetic ideal ; Freud : religion as neurosis ; Barth and the end of liberal theology ; Theology and suspicion. v. 3. Lecture 25-36. Protestant theology after Barth ; 20th-century Catholicism ; Modern Jewish philosophy ; Post-Holocaust theology ; Liberation theology ; Secular and postmodern theologies -- Postmodernism and tradition ; Fundamentalism and Islamism ; New atheisms ; Religion and rationality ; Pluralisms : religious and secular ; Faith, suspicion, and modernity.

This course will explore 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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