LLLC Seminar II: What Is the Good Life?

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Liberal Learning and Life Calling Seminars are interdisciplinary studies of the foundational questions intrinsic 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 275 explores how the Church understands God's invitation to all of humanity to embrace "the good life." This theological vision of the good life will also engage insights offered by disciplines such as literature, political science, sociology, and economics. In the end, students will develop understandings of how God's call to faithfulness, hope, and love should orient their pursuits of lives well-lived in the face of competing cultural notions of goodness. Prerequisite: HNR170