HNR-270 Seminar III: What Is Humanity

Liberal Learning and Life Calling Seminars are interdisciplinary studies of the foundational questions intrincis to human existence. Each seminar explores the nature and significance of one of these questions: most fundamentally, within the framework of historic Christian theology and practice, but also in the light of various relevant academic disciplines and contemporary ideologies. The ultimate goal of the seminars is to equip students to better understand the meaning and purpose of life by cultivating an historic Christian vision of human flourishing and the capacity to discern how this vision relates to competing conceptions of human existence. HNR 270 explores what it means to be human and traces how people's various answers to this question-whether by design or default-shape the substance of their daily lives. The course focuses on what it means for humans to be created in the image of the Triune God and to live out the essence of that image in a fallen world. Readings will draw from the creation narratives, the Gospels, Epistle to the Hebrews, as well as disciplines such as anthropology, biology, psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Prerequisite: HNR170

Credits

3