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Published in 2004, this book tells the story of the author's experience teaching a course on Jesus and moral reasoning at Harvard University. The course proved unexpectedly popular with students from diverse backgrounds.
You wrote that in the early 1980s, the faculty of Harvard College asked you to teach a course on Jesus in the moral reasoning division of the undergraduate curriculum.
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Episode: Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divi...
Published in 2004, this book tells the story of the author's experience teaching a course on Jesus and moral reasoning at Harvard University. The course proved unexpectedly popular with students from diverse backgrounds.
You wrote that in the early 1980s, the faculty of Harvard College asked you to teach a course on Jesus in the moral reasoning division of the undergraduate curriculum.
Episode: Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divi...
This book tells the story of the author's experience teaching a course on Jesus and moral reasoning at Harvard University in the 1980s, highlighting the unexpected popularity of the course among students from diverse backgrounds and beliefs.
You wrote that in the early 1980s, the faculty of Harvard College asked you to teach a course on Jesus in the Moral Reasoning Division of the undergraduate curriculum.
Episode: Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divi...
Published in 2004, this book recounts Harvey Cox's experience teaching a course on Jesus and moral reasoning at Harvard University. The course unexpectedly attracted a large number of students from diverse religious and non-religious backgrounds.
So they introduced this requirement. Every student at Harvard had to take one course in what they called moral reasoning for a graduation requirement.
But among all of these, they thought there ought to be a course on Jesus since even the agnostics thought, well, he's been pretty influential in areas of moral reasoning over a while. So that ought to be part of the mix.
And this was not, I have to say, because of my great eloquence.