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An award-winning professor takes you deep into the life stories and legacies of four iconic figures in world religion.
Overview
Syllabus
- 01: A Quartet of Sages
- 02: Confucius's China
- 03: Becoming a Sage
- 04: A Gentleman and a Scholar
- 05: Heaven and Earth
- 06: Doing unto Others
- 07: How to Rule a Kingdom
- 08: What a Sage Does
- 09: Confucius and Confucianism
- 10: India at the Time of the Buddha
- 11: Siddhattha Gotama
- 12: The First and Second Great Awakenings
- 13: Knowing the World
- 14: Can't Get No Satisfaction
- 15: Getting to the Farther Shore
- 16: How the Buddha Taught
- 17: The Buddha and Buddhism
- 18: The Jewish and Roman Worlds of Jesus
- 19: The Son of Mary
- 20: The First 30 Years
- 21: The Kingdom of God
- 22: Back to the Future
- 23: Jesus's Christology
- 24: The Last Days in Jerusalem
- 25: How Jesus Became Christ
- 26: Arabia in the Days of Ignorance
- 27: The Trustworthy One
- 28: I Am Only a Messenger
- 29: Madinah
- 30: There Is No God but al-Lah
- 31: The Ethics of Islam
- 32: The Greater Jihad
- 33: The Conquest of Makkah
- 34: Their Lives Compared
- 35: Their Teachings Compared
- 36: Their Enduring Significance
- By This Professor
Taught by
Mark W. Muesse
