Assignments:
weekly critical writing assignments. Assignments will be a critical reflection with questions you wish to be explored by the instructor.
You do not need to do any research for these papers beyond the assigned class readings, but be sure to properly cite the use of any secondary sources. Papers MUST cite specific passages from the course text according to MLA style. Below are the critical writing assignments thats needed. 3 separate critical writings on the assigned readings:
1. Unit 2 - Experience and the Real
Module 5 - Pragmatism and Reformed Epistemology
Readings: Pascal, "The Wager"; James, "Will to Believe"; Bergmann, "Rational
Religious Belief without Arguments"
2. Module 6 - Existentialism and Mysticism
Readings: Kierkegaard, "Truth is Subjectivity"; Selections of Mystical
Experiences, James, "Mysticism"; Alston, "Perceiving God"
3. Unit 3 - Paths to the Real
Module 7 - Problem of Religious Diversity I
Readings: Dalai Lama, "Buddhism, Christianity, and the Prospects for World
Religion"; Hick, "Religious Pluralism and Ultimate Reality"