Religion 342

The title of this course was Religion and Literature, but it focused on Christian existentialism. This class was fascinating and the things that we read came from a wide variety of authors from different time periods. Soren Kierkegaard was my favorite existentialist thinker and it was clear that many thinkers drew from his thinking in their own writings because Kierkegaard can be seen as the start of existentialism. We read authors that contradicted Kierkegaard, as well, like Nietzsche, that put the thinking of other authors into perspective. This class taught me a lot and it was a great follow-up to The Problem of Evil because we talked about similar things. Just like The Problem of Evil, our final project was a dialogue. My partner and I wrote on our dialogue on false Christianity, using characters to express different opinons.