Philosophy of religion, world religions, christianity, philosophy university courses

[simplify3]

I'm currently actively enrolled in four university courses:
Philosophy of religion,
world religions,
christianity,
philosophy.

I started at the end of August and this semester will end in december.

It's not for theology but for what they're calling religion and cultural studies.

This week I'll be tested on Shinto and Hinduism in world religions.

Christianity they'll be a test on early church - the era includes the first ecumenical council, origen, and lots of little details in that area of time. The fact that I don't remember means I have to reread these chapters.

I took two quizzes last night. Philosophy we just covered types of dualism, monism. And we're still with descartes.

Finally, in philosophy of religion we did

• Life's Goal is to Obey God's Will; Moral Obligation (William Paley)
• Life's Goal is to Achieve Greatness; The Joyful Wisdom (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Life is not Meaningful Without God; A Confession (Leo Tolstoy)
• Life is Meaningful Without God; Ethics Without Religion (Kai Nielson)

I would say philosophy of religion is the most interesting of them all so far.

 

[PureX]

I'm currently actively enrolled in four university courses:
Philosophy of religion,
world religions,
christianity,
philosophy.

I started at the end of August and this semester will end in december.

It's not for theology but for what they're calling religion and cultural studies.

This week I'll be tested on Shinto and Hinduism in world religions.

Christianity they'll be a test on early church - the era includes the first ecumenical council, origen, and lots of little details in that area of time. The fact that I don't remember means I have to reread these chapters.

I took two quizzes last night. Philosophy we just covered types of dualism, monism. And we're still with descartes.

Finally, in philosophy of religion we did

• Life's Goal is to Obey God's Will; Moral Obligation (William Paley)
• Life's Goal is to Achieve Greatness; The Joyful Wisdom (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Life is not Meaningful Without God; A Confession (Leo Tolstoy)
• Life is Meaningful Without God; Ethics Without Religion (Kai Nielson)

I would say philosophy of religion is the most interesting of them all so far.

I took a Philosophy of Art course in college years ago, and it was fascinating as well. I had no idea that so many philosophers over the centuries had given so much thought to the human art endeavor. Or that they had come up with so many different ways of understanding it. And the most interesting thing was that they were not wrong. Their theories were accurate regarding some artist's motives in some times in history. And yet in the end, none of them ever got it exactly right. Yet that could have been because they were all looking at it in the past, and so could not see what the art endeavor had evolved to become, present day.

As a sculptor, myself, the second most interesting elective course I took was a modern poetry course. As I discovered how amazingly similar assembling words into a poem is to assembling visual 'ques' into a work of art.

 

[Balthazzar]

I'm currently actively enrolled in four university courses:
Philosophy of religion,
world religions,
christianity,
philosophy.

I started at the end of August and this semester will end in december.

It's not for theology but for what they're calling religion and cultural studies.

This week I'll be tested on Shinto and Hinduism in world religions.

Christianity they'll be a test on early church - the era includes the first ecumenical council, origen, and lots of little details in that area of time. The fact that I don't remember means I have to reread these chapters.

I took two quizzes last night. Philosophy we just covered types of dualism, monism. And we're still with descartes.

Finally, in philosophy of religion we did

• Life's Goal is to Obey God's Will; Moral Obligation (William Paley)
• Life's Goal is to Achieve Greatness; The Joyful Wisdom (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Life is not Meaningful Without God; A Confession (Leo Tolstoy)
• Life is Meaningful Without God; Ethics Without Religion (Kai Nielson)

I would say philosophy of religion is the most interesting of them all so far.

Cultural, social, and political - infused by man's quest for meaning, justice, and thirst for understanding. Honestly, I think it's mostly political per culture and era. Good luck. You've got your plate full.

 

[Quintessence]

I remember being disappointed with the philosophy of "religion" course I took, because it wasn't. It wasn't about religion. It was only about Christianity and other Abrahamic, monotheistic religions. False advertising, as it were. Disappointment. The same problem exists in introductory philosophy courses, honestly - the same ethnocentric, Western approach that ignores that anything else exists in the world.

On the one hand, I get it - the courses are about teaching the foundation of the Western academic discipline and they are making no attempt to bother to be cross-cultural or inclusive. But contemporary Western academia has largely moved past that sort of ethnocentrism (or is trying to) and I feel like this isn't being acknowledged that well.