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PHIL208 Faith and Reason

10 cp
Prerequisites
10 cp from 100-level unit in Philosophy
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials and seminars.

This unit is concerned with the philosophical examination of religious belief and practice, and includes topics such as: the concept of faith; the interpretation of religious experience and the criteria for authenticity; the nature of religious language and religious knowledge; religious experience and tradition as a source of religious knowledge; the coherence of some basic Judaeo-Christian-Islamic concepts: spirit, freedom, immortality, salvation, God; contemporary accounts of the nature of God such as Feminist views; rational arguments for belief in God: selected historical and contemporary approaches; rational arguments for atheism, especially the problem of suffering and evil and the diversity of religious beliefs; rationality, truth and faith; science and religion; morality and religion.

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