Religion in Crisis: 18th Century European Thought
Spring Semester only
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
History,
Philosophy,
and
Religious Studies
This course is a study of the challenges to religious thinking in the 18th century. Through texts from authors like Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Lessing, Jacobi, Hume, Fichte and Kant, we will explore questions such as the problem of evil, religious freedom, the divine nature of Christ, the Revelation, and the religious grounding of ethics.
This is a University of Copenhagen course open to DIS students. Please ensure you read the full details on taking external courses through DIS.
Instructors
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Jon Stewart
Ph.D. (Philosophy & Theology, University of Copenhagen, 2007 and 2003). Ph.D. (Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 1992). Associate Research Professor, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen. With DIS since 2010.
