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HDS 2394

Christian Ethics, Persuasion, and Power II

Mark D. Jordan

Description

Whatever else it might be, European "modernity" is a transformation in Christian projects for ethics. Controversies over Reformation can conceal how far both Protestant and Roman Catholic writers begin to make modern assumptions about moral learning or to exercise modern forms of control over moral subjects. The course will try to trace some of this transformation and the increasingly radical reactions to it without pretending to any completion. Readings will include at least the following, as a whole or in substantial part: Luther On the Freedom of a Christian, Calvin Institutes (version of 1536), Pascal Pensées, Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, Edwards Nature of True Virtue, Hume Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, Kant Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling, Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1474

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Scheduling

Half Course
Fall 2009
W., 1-3 and hour to be arranged
Andover Hall, Sperry Room

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	Religion, Ethics, and Politics Theology
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Christianity
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	none
ThM, pre-2007 MTS, and pre-2005 MDiv Area	Area 2
Language Course Designation(s)	n/a