Introduction to Religion

This course offers an elementary comprehensive approach to the characteristics of religions that have influenced history (i.e. the major concept(s) of what man is, the essential need man has for religion, the meaning, function, and objective(s) of religion, the different approaches to salvation, religion’s basic constituents, the different concepts of God in relation to man and to the universe, the different forms of communication between man and God(s), and the ever-rising focal importance of religion, and therefore of God, in human life). For freshman students.