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  • REL 370: Christianity and Unbelief
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course comprises a study of classical atheism examining the philosophy of such thinkers as Feuerbach, Freud, Nietzsche, Russell, Sartre, and Ager. Agnosticism and the void of human religious experience will also be discussed. The religious response to atheism from several points of view will also be discussed.
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  • REL 371: Concepts of Being Human
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is a study of the way in which human nature has been defined through the ages from the early Greek philosophers to modern interpretations with special emphasis on modern psychological, philosophical, and religious theory. Consideration will be given to the implications of such concepts for contemporary life.
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  • REL 372: Social Ethics
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    After a brief discussion of biblical ethics and moral theory, this course will focus on selected social issues such as economic injustice, capital punishment, sexual ethics, and hunger.
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  • REL 375: Faith & Popular Culture
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course will look closely at popular culture where there are images of faith. Students will look at movies and television, listen to music, read fiction, view art, and examine sports to see where ideas of the divine might be evident. A discussion approach is intended to encourage theological engagement with popular culture and to stimulate �meaning-making� for the participants.
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  • REL 380: The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Religious Life
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course seeks to understand the causes, the values, and the attraction of fundamentalism in religious life, in particular stressing its desire to control society�s understanding of the divine. Students will focus primarily on fundamentalist movements in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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  • REL 399: Bioethics
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is designed to explore the complex ethical questions and concerns raised by the technological advancements being made in medicine, genetics, and cybernetics. The role of futuristic ethics, anticipating the bioethical issues likely to arise in the future and addressing those issues preemptively, will be considered. The importance of having a well-established ethical base from which to examine ethically questionable situations (as opposed to just �situation ethics�) will be stressed. Also, the reason humans need to do bioethics in the first place (as opposed to just letting the technology take us for a ride) will be stressed.
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  • REL 401: History of Christian Thought
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This survey of Christian thought from the post-New Testament era through the present compares major theological systems which have emerged within the Christian church. Elements of theology to be considered include revelation, Christology, sin, salvation, the Holy Spirit, and ecclesiology.
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  • REL 412: 20th Century Continental Philosophy
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is an examination of selected problems in recent philosophical literature such as meaning, perception, knowledge, truth, and freedom. Readings from twentieth-century European philosophers such as Hussert, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Derrida, and Foucault will be included.
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  • REL 440: Religion in America
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This course is a survey of the American religious experience from the colonial period to the present that focuses upon the various historic forms of Christianity and emphasizes the role of religion in American social, cultural, intellectual, and political development. Spring, alternate odd-numbered years.
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  • REL 450: The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
    3.00 Credits
    The University of Tennessee Southern

    This study of Nazi Germany�s program of ethnic cleansing aimed particularly at Jews from 1939-1945 considers the causes of the tragedy and its subsequent implications for the worldwide Jewish community. The theological and philosophical implications of the Holocaust for both Jews and Christians will be considered, viewing this event as an expression of the age-old struggle between good and evil. The class will utilize lectures, readings, videos, and discussion to address the subject.
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