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2025-2026 Binghamton University Academic Guide 
    
2025-2026 Binghamton University Academic Guide

RELG 311 - Faith and Reason


Credits: 4

This course explores the philosophical and religious tensions in and between the categories of faith and reason. How are we to understand faith? What is a religion of or from reason? What does one gain or lose by founding religion on reason alone? Topics will include the nature of religious subjectivity, divinity, metaphysics, and supernatural, creation, revelation, and prayer. Prerequisites: one course in philosophy.