First-Year Seminars 110KG - Knowing God

This first-year seminar confronts the critical differences in the ways the Greco-Roman philosophical world and the Judaeo-Christian culture understood and experienced the divine nature and the relationship of diviity to humanity. Hence, we read Sophocles' Oedipus tragedies against the Book of Job, Plato's Phaedo against Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and Cicero's Conerning the Nature of the Gods as seminal texts in coming to grips with the problem of knowing God.

First-year students only, by placement.