THE 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant, Historical Theology, Unseen Power
4 Feb 2019
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Religion: a worldview that involves belief in god or gods, or some unseen power or powers, something beyond the human experience. Jewish, christian, and muslim tradition are the most influential in the western world, believe god to be personal, all-knowing, all-powerful, just, loving, and the creator of everything that exists. Revelation: deliberate self-disclosure of god (or the gods) to humanity. Christian faith: a response to revelation, begins with belief in god and in god"s son, jesus christ. It also involves trust in god and jesus. Theology: the study of god; discourse concerning the divine; god talk. Samuel preus: seminal writer in the religious studies movement, described the positive benefits of academic discipline, compared to theology in his 1987 publication, Explaining religion: criticism and theory from bodin to freud. Seth kunin: offered a way to map out the areas under religious studies umbrella in religious studies and theology:
