RELG 311 - Faith and Reason

This course explores the philosophical and religious tensions in and between the categories of faith and reason. How are we to understand faith? What is a religion of or from reason? What does one gain or lose by founding religion on reason alone? Topics will include the nature of religious subjectivity, divinity, metaphysics, and supernatural, creation, revelation, and prayer. Prerequisites: one course in philosophy. 4 credits.