Master of Religious Philosophy
Course Credits: 4
Conferral: Master Certificate

Lesson Type: Email
Required for: Chaplaincy Program
Note: N/A

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Course Outline:

The Master of Religious Philosophy course takes a look at the very basis of religion itself. This enlightening study offers an interesting approach to human conceptions about religion.

This is not a course in World Religion or Comparative Religion; nor is it a course in Religious Beliefs.

The field of Religious Philosophy addresses questions about how or why religion is persistent and pervasive through the ages.
- Why do we humans seem to be unable to conceive of a society without religion?
- How did it start? Why did it start? And, how did it ever end up in the state that it is now?

Lessons in this course include the following topics:

• Introduction; History of Religious Philosophy
• Fundamentals and Precepts
• Organized Religions and Cults
• Origin of Religion
• Why are humans apparently innately religious?
• Fundamental Forms of Religious Structure
• Religious Classification Schemes
• The Five A’s of Religious Tolerance
• Religious Expression: Myth
• Religious Expression: Doctrine
• Religious Expression: Scripture
• Religious Expression: Sacred Space
• Religious Functionality: Nature
• Religious Functionality: Social
• Religious Functionality: Psychological
• Religious Functionality: Political
• Religious Globalization
• Millenarian & Eschatalogical Systems
• Ecclesiasticism: Eastern Faiths
• Ecclesiasticism: Western Faiths
• Ecclesiasticism: Southern Faiths
• The Fourth Way: Communal and Shamanistic Faiths
• Religion and Science: Partners or Competitors?
• The Future of Religion

This is a required course for completing our Chaplaincy Program

Instructions are included in the course for where to submit any assignments, quiz and essay questions. A Course Final you submit will be reviewed by Faculty, and your completion certificate/diploma will be issued by the ULC Seminary Board of Directors.