A 2018 course by Jill DeTemple at Southern Methodist University is “an introduction to the principal questions and modes of argument that have shaped the Philosophy of Religion as an academic discipline.” Specific ethical issues are analyzed.
A 2018 course by Marga Vega at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology “is a survey of epistemology that brings together Classical philosophy approaches with Contemporary debates. . . . a study [of] the nature of cognition, perception and rational knowledge as well as the main epistemological problems that concern these sources.”
A course by Michael Zank at Boston University “covers major sources in the modern Continental philosophical conversation on the philosophy of religion focusing on the writings of Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard.”
A 2012 course by Charles Bellinger at Brite Divinity School “addresses key themes in the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, with a view to the place of his ideas within modern moral philosophy.”
A 2010 course by Martha Reineke at the University of Northern Iowa approaches Existentialism primarily through the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre and the following themes: “Philosophical reflection is situated in the world. . . . Human existence is a question to itself. . . . The human body is an important subject for philosophical reflection. . . . .The existence of the other is a problem to be resolved. . . . .What is freedom and what are the possibilities of humans acting freely?”
A 2006 course by Michael Zank at Boston University surveys “Philosophical critiques of revealed religion from Enlightenment to the 20th century, including analysis of criticisms in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Major trends examined include rationalism, idealism, materialism, and nihilism.”
A 2008 course by Michael Andres at Northwestern College “is a theological, biblical, and historical study of apologetics, the defense of the faith, from a classical as well as a contemporary perspective.”
A 2013 course by Gail Hamner at Syracuse University traces “affect theory . . . from phenomenology . . . and critical theory . . . and in its political reverberations.”
A 2007 course by Dana Hollander at McMaster University studies “key work in modern Western philosophy and religious thought that propose different ways of conceiving God and approaching religion.”
A 2012 course by Mary Jane O’Donnell at California State University, Northridge, “introduces and encourages students in the use of the basic concepts of logic and critical reasoning.”
