Philosophy of ReligionDr Tom Kerns
Philosophy of Religion
Discussion Questions
for
Huston Smith's The World's Religions
Please post and discuss your answers to these DQs in the classroom folder for week three. Please answer only one DQ per post.
1. From the chapter on Hinduism, select two ideas that stood out for you as important. Please describe each idea (quoting a passage or two that might help you explain what it is about each of those ideas that you found interesting.)
1st idea:
2nd idea:
2. From the chapter on Islam, select two ideas that stood out for you as important. Please describe each idea (quoting a passage or two that might help you explain what it is about each of those ideas that you found interesting.)
1st:
2nd:
3. From the chapter on Judaism, select two ideas that stood out for you as important. Please describe each idea (quoting a passage or two that might help you explain what it is about each of those ideas that you found interesting.)
1st:
2nd:
4. Which additional chapter on which religion did you choose to read, and what was your reason for choosing that particular chapter as your extra one?
5. From that chapter, select two ideas that stood out for you as important. Please describe each idea (quoting a passage or two that might help you explain what it is about each of those ideas that you found interesting.)
1st:
2nd:
6. On pp 384-86 Smith asks how the world's religions might be related to one another. He suggests three possible ways. Describe in your own words what these three possible ways are.
a.
b.
c.
7. Which of those three ways seems most true to you? Please explain why.
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