RELI 248 Different Voices: Christianity, Atheism and World Religions (RT)
This course will try to engage different religious voices. The course will explore the dilemma facing traditional Christianity regarding Atheism, and the World’s religions. The primary questions to be addressed are: How should Christians engage atheists and agnostics? Do Christians have something to learn from atheists and agnostics and do atheists and agnostics have something to learn from Christians? How should Christians interact with other world religions? In what ways have Christians theologically dealt with other religions? What are the positive and negative ways that Christianity has related to other religions? Is it inevitable that the religions of the world must be in conflict with each other? Are all religions equally true? As the world gets smaller and smaller how ought contemporary Christians deal with their evangelical vocation to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ? How can atheists, agnostics and other religions help or hinder Christians from dealing with their understanding of what it means to be people of faith? These and other questions will be discussed and debated.