Course Lecture Titles

1. Introduction—Philosophy and Religion as Traditions

2. Plato's Inquiries—The Gods and the Good

3. Plato's Spirituality—The Immortal Soul and the Other World

4. Aristotle and Plato—Cosmos, Contemplation, and Happiness

5. Plotinus—Neoplatonism and the Ultimate Unity of All

6. The Jewish Scriptures—Life With the God of Israel

7. Platonist Philosophy and Scriptural Religion

8. The New Testament—Life in Christ

9. Rabbinic Judaism—Israel and the Torah

10. Church Fathers—The Logos Made Flesh

11. The Development of Christian Platonism

12. Jewish Rationalism and Mysticism—Maimonides and Kabbalah

13. Classical Theism—Proofs and Attributes of God

14. Medieval Christian Theology—Nature and Grace

15. Late-Medieval Nominalism and Christian Mysticism

16. Protestantism—Problems of Grace

17. Descartes, Locke, and the Crisis of Modernity

18. Leibniz and Theodicy

19. Hume's Critique of Religion

20. Kant—Reason Limited to Experience

21. Kant—Morality as the Basis of Religion

22. Schleiermacher—Feeling as the Basis of Religion

23. Hegel—A Philosophical History of Religion

24. Marx and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

25. Kierkegaard—Existentialism and the Leap of Faith

26. Nietzsche—Critic of Christian Morality

27. Neo-orthodoxy—The Subject and Object of Faith

28. Encountering the Biblical Other—Buber and Levinas

29. Process Philosophy—God in Time

30. Logical Empiricism and the Meaning of Religion

31. Reformed Epistemology and the Rationality of Belief

32. Conclusion—Philosophy and Religion Today

Phillip Cary

Eastern University

Ph.D.Yale University