Professional Documents
Culture Documents
This is a course about values, truth claims, and lived knowledge and not a
programme with religious information concerning different traditions. The
different lecturers believe what they teach. We encourage you to practice a
‘hermeneutic of charity’ – that is, to be open and generous to different
traditions in order to explore their truth claims as truth claims (i.e. truth as a
claim on how you live your life). The course is not about making a particular
pitch for a tradition or persuading others that one tradition is better than
another. In summary, ensure that the you understand that the course: