TRS 314 - The Enlightenment & Modernity

Upper Division

Prerequisites
TRS 281 or TRS 380 or TRS 381 or TRS 382 or TRS 383 or TRS 384 or TRS 385 or TRS 386 or TRS 387 or TRS 388 or TRS 389 or PHIL 220; Minimum grade D-.

The unprecedented religious violence of the Thirty Years’ War helped give birth to the “Age of Reason” and the fundamental transformation of the ideas of God, humanity, and society in early modern Europe. This course explores the Enlightenment’s turn to reason and “natural religion” and the responses to this development by different wings of the Christian theological tradition, from Liberals who sought to harmonize traditional faith with the new ideas of Modernity to Fundamentalists who insisted that no harmony, but only war, was possible.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
TUTE - Theological Explorations

Repeatable
No

Fee
$5

Additional Notes
Previous course number: TRS 100

Course credits: 3