PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION SYLLABUS

INTRODUCTION

1. Diversity and unity – generally
2. What is religion?
3. What is philosophy?
4. What is the relation of philosophy and religion?
5. Diversity and unity in religion
6. God – two basic views

ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD – does God exist?

1. Experience – personal and historical
2. Ontological argument
3. Cosmological argument
4. Teleological arguments
5. Natural order
6. Moral order
7. Counterargument – the problem of evil

ON THE NATURE OF GOD – is God knowable?

1. Analogy
2. Infinitude
3. Personality
4. Independence
5. Moral attributes
6. Providence

ON THE PURPOSE OF GOD – what is the will of God?

1. Moral law
2. Human destiny – personal
3. History and eschatology