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Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad

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19 hours 1 minute
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An award-winning professor takes you deep into the life stories and legacies of four iconic figures in world religion.

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

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