INTG 307- REFLECTIONS: FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, LOVERS, AND ENEMIES
This course offers students the opportunity to reflect on their lives and the lives of others through the medium of story. Using stories from the world's religious traditions as well as culturally specific short-stories, students will be asked to examine how narratives shape our ideas of who we consider to be friends, neighbors, lovers, and enemies and how we are to respond to them. Students will explore their beliefs about themselves and others, their images of God and how they have been formed, how these understandings of the divine influence human behavior, the importance of caring for self, and the need to connect with our global human society and care for the earth. The course will continually ask students to consider the possibility that there is more than one "right" answer to basic questions of creaturely being and relating to the divine. (Three Credits)
Why is there suffering and evil? What is our responsibility in the face of suffering? Are there grounds for hoping that suffering may one day cease? This class focuses on the long tradition of religious and philosophical reflection on these and related questions.
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