God and atheism

lreli1278  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

God and atheism
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1

  This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2019-2020 !

Teacher(s)
Bourgine Benoît;
Language
French
Main themes
The course covers the following: the main lines of a rational elaboration of the affirmation of God;
the Christian idea of the incomprehensible and ineffable God;
the Protestant criticism of "natural theology";
the different forms of the negation of God in modern atheism and the different ways in which theology discusses them.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 - enter into the theological questions of existence and the nature of God;
 
- to elucidate the relationship between natural knowledge of God and the Christian belief in God;
 
- to counter the criticisms that modem atheism addresses to the belief in God.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
2018-2019
These lessons examine the various types of modern atheism and the different ways of affirming the existence of God by reason.
Bibliography
  • Syllabus disponible sous forme de « Cours en dépôt » à imprimer à la DUC.
Se procurer l'ouvrage suivant : Bernard Sève, La question philosophique de l'existence de Dieu, Paris, PUF, 1994
 
Teaching materials
  • Syllabus disponible sous forme de « Cours en dépôt » à imprimer à la DUC.
Faculty or entity
TEBI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Certificat universitaire en théologie (fondements)

Additionnal module in Religious Studies

Minor in Christian Theology

Minor in Sciences of Religions (openness)

Minor in Sciences of Religions (discipline to complement the major)