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God & Persons
Dr. Eugene Selk
3 Semester Hours
4 papers, 3 exams
The course examines, from the viewpoint of rational inquiry, questions concerning God (classic and contemporary arguments on the existence of God and contemporary atheism and agnosticism, the nature of God, approaches toward God, the problem of evil in the light of belief in God) and human personhood (freedom and determinism, human destiny, the meaning of human life). P: PHL107 or 109; So. stdg.
Texts: Peterson, Michael, et al., eds. Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. 2nd ed. NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-513546-6. Haught, John. Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution. NY: Paulist Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8091-3989-8.