Certain fundamental questions
that occur to us as reflective
beings are the following: What
is the nature of the world around
us? How did the world come to be?
How are we to understand ourselves
and our place in the world? Is
there a divine being? Many religions
present their adherents with a
way of conceiving of the answers
to such questions. As such these
religious faiths make claims about
reality, about the divine and about
the relation of the human being
to the divine. In considering the
explanations provided by various
religious faiths, one may begin
to reflect critically about the
different worldviews that they
advocate. In this course, we will
particularly be concerned with
a central tenet in many religious
faiths—the claim that there
exists a divine being and that
we have knowledge of the nature
of this being. We will examine
carefully the arguments for and
against the conclusion that a divine
being exists.
