Week No. Topic Content and Focus

Week 1

Introduction & Belief

Concept of God; propositional and attitudinal belief.

Week 2

Teleological, Ontological and Cosmological arguments.

Week 3

Proofs 2

Moral, Religious Experience and Miracles arguments.

Week 4

Faith

Pascal's wager, William James and Kierkegaard.

Week 5

The Problem of Evil

Definition; Irenaen, Augustinian and Process theodicies.

Week 6

Miracles and Religious Experience

Hume, scepticism and probability; Objectivism and Subjectivism.

Week 7

Life after Death

Mind and body; Interaction; Evidence of survival; Identity and Resurrection.

Week 8

Verification

Logical Positivism; Flew's challenge; Responses.

Week 9

Language Games

Wittgenstein; Language games; Wittgensteinian Fideism; D.Z.Phillips.

Week 10

Summary and Revision

Overview of course; Revision essays, exercises and tests.
Scheme of Work
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