RELG 101 spring 2021 -- Online version

Below are links to the 2 classes I am leading in the Spring of 2021.

RELG 101: Introduction to Religious Studies

• Relg 101 (Fall 20)
• Module 2 : Phenomenological Method

RELG 317: Modern Christian Thought

Module 1: Getting started

• Unpacking the title
• Preface to Placher

Module 2: Background

• Resources
• Themes on a continuum

Module 3: Reformation pt. 1

• Reformation overview
• Reformation themes
• Reformation figures
• Zoom session 1

God's Governance

• Calvinism
• Counter Reformation
• English Reformation

Reason and Enthusiasm

• Emergence of Modern
• Enlightenment
• Philosophy and Religion

City on a Hill

• City on a Hill
• Romanticism in America

The Claims of Reason

• Triumphant sense of History
• Romanticism and Church Thought
• Responses

The end of Western Christendom

• Leaving the 19th c.
• Entering the 20th c.
• The impact of the expansion of knowledge
• 5 themes in Christian Thought

The Current Scene

• Theology and new philosophies
• It makes all the difference