OLLI101499 - Religion Reconstructed and the Meaning of Our Lives [Online via Zoom]
Course Description
RELIGION RECONSTRUCTED AND THE MEANING OF OUR LIVES
Instructor: Alan Soffin
Day of Week: Monday
Dates: Jan 29 – Apr 8 (10 sessions)
No Class: Mar 4
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
Rethinking Religion is a class in philosophy of religion that aims to help students think philosophically. It analyzes concepts central to religion, especially as they bear upon religion’s defining question: “what is the meaning of human life?” To that end, we consider such topics as God, “creation,” miracles, faith, knowledge, morality, free will and the objectivity of values.“Religions,“ say the polls, ”are in decline.” But, the philosopher, Kolakowski, warns us that, “when modernity lost its sense of the sacred, it was doomed. “Was he right?
Maximum Online: 20
Instructor Bio:
Alan Soffin, PhD, Social Foundations and Philosophy of Education. Primary doctoral course-work in philosophy. Author, Rethinking Religion: Beyond Scientism, Theism and Philosophic Doubt (Telford: Cascadia Press, 2011, 434 pp.). Author, Recollecting Honor, in Images of Youth. Soffin has published in Educational Theory, MLA Bulletin, and Dreamseeker Magazine, a Mennonite journal to which he contributed a series of articles on religion and the religious.
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