GS 204: Spirit & Nature: Religion & Science
Weeks 5 & 6 Schedule
Week 5: “Religion and Idolatry, Change and Complicity"
10/3 FAITH AS HUMAN PHENOMENON
12:30 pm: Class Session
Read:
Tillich, Chs. III-V
10/4 DIVERSITY IN TYPES OF FAITH AND TYPES OF TRUTH
9:00 Class Session
Read:
Bellah, “Religious Evolution,” McFague “Quilt,” Gottlieb, pp. 428-37
10/5 MODELS & STORIES: RELIGION EVOLVES AND SHIFTS PARADIGMS?
9:00 Class Session: Bonnie Stapleton, Director of Speech & Debate
Read:
Ruether, pp. 71-142
10/6 DESTRUCTION & LOSS
9:00 Class Session
1:00 p.m. Darwin Re-Acting Game, Session III: A. The use of scientific information to reduce poverty and improve public health; B. Nominating women (or a specific woman) to the Royal Society.
Read:
Ruether, pp.143-201; Gottlieb, pp. 466-69, 723-26
10/7 THE EVILS OF DOMINATION & DECEIT
9:00 Class Session
Read:
Morrow, pp. 1-125
Week 6: “The Ecological Crisis: Despair & Hope”
10/10 INVESTIGATING EVIL:
9:00 Class Session: "Faith & Doubt at Ground
Zero"
Read:
Morrow, pp. 125-259
Prepare:
A draft of your paper on “The Nature and Source of Evil”
10/11 PEER CRITIQUING & STRUGGLING WITH
EVIL!: Bring a draft of your paper.
9:00 Class Session
Revise and finish: Your paper on “The Nature and Source of Evil”
10/12 EVIL - NOUN & ADJECTIVE:
9:00 Class Discussion
Read:
Gottlieb, pp. 210-22, 361-82, 395-99; Morrow, pp. 259-266.
10/13 HOPE: MODELS OF HEALING
9:00 Class Session
10:45 Internet Project Session in Tutt
Read:
Gottlieb, pp. 192-201, 248-261;
Wilson: Threatened Ecoregions- Terrestrial & Aquatic; World Deforestation - Rates of Deforestation; Loss of Biodiversity; Loss of Ecosystem Variety.
10/14 THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
8:00 Class Field Trip to Queens Canyon
Read:
Gottlieb, pp. 232-247, 554-557 (Meditation Exercise). 596-612,
644-50, 695-720.